"Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a longtime critic of Islam and vocal atheist, has announced that she is now a Christian for both spiritual and civilizational reasons.
"I still have a great deal to learn about Christianity," she wrote in an
The famous Muslim apostate Hirsi Ali recalled that the Muslim Brotherhood had a unique ability to transform her and her fellow teenagers into activists almost overnight.
Amid strict prayer and fasting sessions, the Somali-born Hirsi Ali and her friends were taught to hate Jews and avoid indulging in early pleasures or else face the wrath of Allah.
She said that the "zero-cost escape" from a life of "self-denial" and "harassment" offered by atheism made the absence of belief appealing to her for a time. The atheists in her circle, like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, offered her a new circle of friends that were both fun and clever.
However, as Hirsi Ali witnessed the threats posed to Western civilization via authoritarian regimes like Russia and China, the rise of global Islamism and the "viral spread" of woke ideology, the benefits of atheism seemed inadequate to combat the issues of modern civilization.
"We endeavor to fend off these threats with modern, secular tools:
The atheist doctrine of "God is dead," in her opinion, seemed now insufficient to find refuge in the "rules-based liberal international order." The solution, Hirsi Ali found, was an embrace of one's desire to uphold Judeo-Christian tradition.
She also praised the freedom of conscience and freedom found in Western civilization.
Hirsi Ali admitted that she found life without any spiritual aspect "unendurable," and atheism failed to answer the eternal question: What is the meaning and purpose of life?
The "God hole," as she described it, inevitably left a void that has been filled by a "jumble of irrational, quasi-religious dogma."
She believes without Christianity, the West cannot withstand China, Russia and Iran, cannot counter Islam with secularism and will be unable to fight "woke ideology," which she claimed is determined to "destroy civilization." FOX
