Another famous atheist has done the unexpected: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, respected intellectual with an amazing life story, converted to Christianity.
In a public discussion event with Richard Dawkins last fall she said:
"Like you, I did mock faith, in general, and probably Christianity in particular, but I don't do that anymore. ... I have come down to my knees to say that the people who always had faith have something that we who lost faith don’t have.”
“What you value in Christianity is something that really is absolutely necessary to pass on to the next generation,” she said. “And we have failed the next generation by taking [it] away from them . . and telling them it’s nonsense and false."
She, like Dawkins, admires the Western Civilization that Christianity built. But more than that, she found in Christianity the answer to her question, "what is the meaning and purpose of life?"
from Christian Post
(cont'd tomorrow)
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