A former member of the New Atheist movement who now considers herself a Christian said Saturday that she regrets her role in the community and now believes the love and salvation found in Jesus is her true source of purpose. He said he believes there is. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, made the comments during a discussion about atheist Richard Dawkins as part of the Dissident Dialogue Conference in New York. Hirsi Ali was previously considered a member of the New Atheist movement alongside writers such as Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, but she said in a column last year that she now considers herself a Christian. she announced.
On Saturday, she said she regretted confusing Christianity and Islam. Unchecked I covered the conference.
“I really regret doing that,” she said. “I am guilty of saying that all faiths, all perceptions of God are the same and equally harmful. So…I have come to regret the damage I have done. ”
Christianity is an essential part of society, she said.
“The things that we hold dear in Christianity are really the things that we absolutely need to pass on to the next generation,” she told Dawkins, according to the Unherald newspaper. “And we have let down the next generation by taking that moral framework away from them and teaching them that it is nonsense and wrong. We also aim at their hearts, minds and souls. We have not protected them from outside forces.”
Hirsi Ali also spoke about her personal relationship with God, saying that she considers Dawkins a mentor, but that they now have major differences in their beliefs.
Christianity “no longer sounds like nonsense,” she says.
“It makes a lot of sense. And not only does it make a lot of sense, it’s guided by thousands of years of wisdom,” she said. “…It doesn’t seem like nonsense to me. I’m not making fun of it. I fell down and said, perhaps, those who have always had faith, those who have lost their faith, They have something that we don’t have.”
Christianity, she asserted, is “obsessed with love.”
“I’m a total Christian,” she said. “But what I’m finding about it is that the message of Christianity that I receive is a message of love, even though it’s the opposite of the message of Islam that I grew up with as a Muslim. It’s a message of salvation. It’s a story of rebirth and rebirth. And in a small way, I felt like I had died and been born again. And I think that that story of salvation and rebirth actually makes Christianity a very powerful story for the human condition and human existence.”
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