AYAAN BECAME A CHRISTIAN, BUT IS STILL LIBERAL

So, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (website) has announced on TwitteX she has become a Christian. We may assume she has become a member of some Protestant, Scottish denomination, together with her husband, the historian Niall Ferguson (website), who is a proud Scotsman by birth. We can't be sure which denomination they have chosen, because neither of them have issued details on the matter. What is of interest though are the arguments Ayaan is giving for her decision, as are the reactions on social media, which are predictably welcoming and positive from Christians, and negative and spiteful from the atheist crowd (who are for the most part actually anti theists). 


In her argumentation Ayaan is explaining where she is coming from. Confronted as a Muslim with Islam inspired terrorism and violence and as a new arrival in the secular Netherlands, a country that is dealing with its own legacy of Calvinism, blaming religion in general for the violence of Islamists was an easy mistake made by many. 

Ayaan brings up the rise of authoritarianism, pointing to the CCP in China and President Putin of Russia, and the looming threat of economic and/or monetary collapse, as the main reasons for her conversion. It stands to reasons we cannot fight these political and economic forces under the banner of 'God is Dead'. 


She believes the only credible answer to external dictators is our common Judeo-Christian legacy. She may not have noticed the growing tyrannical nature of liberalism itself destroying Western civilization. What Ayaan argues is an answer for what are essentially political problems! It is hardly a valid argument to become a Christian. 

As a more satisfactory reason for her conversion, she mentions she found "life without any spiritual solace unendurable — indeed very nearly self-destructive." It is! Of course atheism cannot fill the void left by the retreat of -- let us be specific -- humanized Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.

Ayaan believes that "Christianity outgrew its dogmatic stage" and thinks that is a good thing. It is not. That is precisely the reason why postmodern, Western denominations will not fill the void any more than atheism does. 

Orthodox Christianity alone upholds the original teachings of Jesus Christ and the Apostles, priding itself for keeping the fundamentals intact for over two thousand years of history by being avers to politics and power games that have plagued Rome right from the earliest years of Christendom and that continued throughout the Great Schism and the Reformation.

Ayaan is aware of the problems in the Western churches. She writes "the void left by the retreat of the church — has merely been filled by a jumble of irrational quasi-religious dogma, quoting G.K. Chesterton great aphorism: "When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything."

We are still speculating Ayaan became a member of some wishy-washy Protestant Church, yet she knows that is not the answer: "To win the hearts and minds of Muslims here in the West, we have to offer them something more than videos on TikTok (...) Unless we offer something as meaningful, I fear the erosion of our civilization will continue (...) Christianity has it all."

Well, it has, but Ayaan won't find it in the lapsed Protestant or Roman Catholic Churches of the 21st century with their humanistic temples filled to the brim with identity politics and crypto or outright wokeism. 

Orthodoxy on the other hand is just as rigid and demanding as Islam, but without the violence and oppression. And it is just as much a way of life, rather than a buffet and an afterthought for Christmas and Easter. But thankfully the perfection it aspires to may last an entire life time. 

Many disillusioned liberals are nevertheless blind for the root of its failure. It is no coincidence that the process of religious retreat occurred at the same pace as the advance of liberalism. The root of the problem is liberalism's innate relativism, which teaches that morality is subjective and a personal preference. 

The late Rush Limbaugh once remarked that even the slightest concession to liberalism, in time causes the rot of the entire body. In matters explaining unchanging reality -- that is what religion and philosophy strife to do -- one can't be conservative or orthodox enough. The West needs less liberalism, not more of it! 



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