What We Learn From Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Conversion to Christianity 

I can’t wait to see her book on Christian journey.

This episode was so heartening. Coming from a vibrant Christian background, I've struggled with agnosticism for a long time, and am ashamed of my lack of faith. However, godlessness is an abyss to me, and I, too, seek meaning among the people of God. Hearing Ali and Glenn's comments remind me that Jesus said, "Whoever comes to Me, I will by no means cast out," airtight theology aside.

Hallelujah! I have praid for her during years, since I have read her book "Nomad", praise be the Name of Jesus! Since 2006 I had her in my prayers.

Incredibly helpful to have your thoughts on this! I felt the same frustration in the lack of 'root' discussion at ARC- but it was confusing - there was also a real hope in this discussion taking place and some of the fantastic exploration made. I don't think it could have happened even a few years ago. I'm glad you've reminded me - it's too easy to be cynical!

I am ex Muslim converted Christian from Pakistan. I left Islam because I knew Islamic god is not true god, I didn’t become an atheist because I believed there is true God and I found that true God is Jesus. And I didn’t learned all about Christianity in few days and I am still growing in my faith and that’s what sister Ayaan will do. The Lord is working in her life. God bless her🙏❤️

In May of this year a meeting has been set up between Richard Dawkins and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, among others, in NYC. Two days of debate, discussion, and disagreement. General admission to the public. It will be interesting.

Ms Ali clearly has a personal relationship with Jesus, demonstrated by her constant mentioning of him and his teachings. This definitely wasn’t a political conversion.

When a thinking person like Ayaan chooses Jesus it shows that when you look at the evidence objectively, any intelligent person can see that the only logical conclusion is that Jesus is everything the Bible says He is. Andrew Klavan a former Jew, Werner Heisenberg one of the fathers of Quantum Mechanics are great minds who saw the undeniable reality of Jesus. They saw no contradiction between reason and faith.

Thank you Glen Scrivener for your message and explaining Ayaan Hirsi Ali's talk online. Must read that book, Dominion.

I’m in NYC! I want to follow your path

Glenn. This is a letter I wrote to The Australian last week: Further to several recent references in The Australian to historical Christian anti-Judaism, look no further than Jesus who called Jewish religious leaders “vipers” and “hypocrites.” They responded by having him crucified which to my mind, proves his point. I suggest it is time to analyse behaviour by considering what all parties in the Jewish/Islamic conflict do by comparison to what they say. Regards Warren Mills.

It seems as though Ms.Ali, and possibly Jordan Peterson, are traveling a similar route as did the late Malcom Muggeridge who eventually embraced Christ as Messiah. I continue to pray for both in addition to the historian Tom Holland who wrote the book dominion.

17:02 This is so the topic of Chesterton's The Return of Don Quixote!

I'm an atheist, and this blanket appreciation for Ayaan's foray into Christianity kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but probably not for the reasons you might think! Please read the rest of the comment before replying (but i must warn you this gets a tad "rant"-y). So, first of all; no, i'm not sad that she "deconverted" from atheism. She has autonomy to engage in her own journey, and if she finds that Christianity aligns better with her view of the transcendent (as well as being the means to defend Western values), more power to her. I also identify more with left-leaning ideas, whereas Ayaan seems to be more of a right-leaning individual, so i never felt particularly influenced by her. She wasn't in my "tribe", so to speak, so i don't view her deconversion as much of a loss. As a left-leaning person myself, i do keep tabs on many kinds of discourse which have to do with that. In particular, i find myself fascinated with the so called "Progressive" Christianity. Take, for instance, LGBT issues. It is a pervasive cultural stereotype that folks on the LGBT spectrum live the so-called "LGBT lifestyle"; a throuhougly secular, godless life, filled with sin and indiscriminated affirmation of the self. Within Progressive Christianity we see a genuine attempt at giving an alternative to these folks, to give them a life that's neither the illogical and dangerous denial of what sexual orientation/identity is, as presented in Traditional Christianity, nor is the thoughtless surrender to the "LGBT lifestyle". But here's the thing; maybe its the bubble of news i consume, but i often see discussions between Traditional Christians and Progressive Christians, and it is a consistent fact that Progressive Christians are denied the label of Christian altogether. To then see the same Tradidional Christians turn around and throw effusive praise at Ayaan for starting her journey, despite the fact that they're so quick to condemn their brothers for, at times, minute differences in application of theology (i encourage anyone to look at the responses to Andy Stanley, who isn't even a Progressive, by the way), reeks of hypocrisy. And for the record, yes, i'm aware that you directly address the fact that there were Christians who are skeptical of Ayaan's conversion story, and in fact this video is, in a sense, a reply to those Christians, but my impression was that, by and large, Christians did welcome Ayaan into Christianity proper, whereas the same can't be said for how Progressive Christians are received. If you want, i can link the ideas in this comment directly to the video. Consider the argument you present at 11:38 . As a moral conviction, let's take "I believe LGBT individuals have the right to be themselves in all spaces of society, including leadership of religious organizations if said individuals are so inclined and able, and that they and their families should be affirmed just like straight individuals are.". For Progressive Christians, the problem lies with premise 3; Traditional Christians will argue that the moral conviction i mentioned does not follow from the truth claims of Christianity, and isn't consistent with it either. And thus lies exposed the hypocrisy: someone celebrating Ayaan in this aspect has nothing to do with Christianity, but rather with whether she's aligned with their personal understanding of the material world or not. The creeds, the veracity of the Resurrection, none of that actually matters. As i said, Ayaan's journey is hers to follow, and i don't nurture strong feelings about it either way. But it is sad to see a once-venerated institution of humanity so hijacked for political aims.

I totally agree, Lord Jesus use her to share the goodness of living God what he has done the marvelous on the cross.

I wouldn't say it is "in" but rather getting you to the door step. And the question of "Is God real?' is the most profound question if He really is real.

Wow

I agree Big AI, there is no excuse for Christian’s bad behaviour. It’s not what say that counts as talk is cheap, it’s consistency between what we think, say and do that’s important. Jesus condemned the Pharisees and Pharisees because they misused their power. He gives us the same warning especially that we don’t have the right to condemn, but we do have the right to call out bad behaviour.

“ I am the way the truth and the life. “ I wish we did not tag “Judeo” in front of Christian. I am Christian- I believe in Christianity not Judaism. Why are we encouraged to accept that to be Christian you must accept Judaism- NO Judaism- I accept Genesis but nothing after until the New Testament and the God of love, peace and understanding. No burning bush god, no jealous god no god that chooses a people against or above others. That’s not a Christian God , Yeshua God the loving God. 🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

I suspect Christians go back only as far as the Enlightenment because that was the birth of the fruits we hold dear today (individual human rights, equality, and freedom of speech and thought). This avoids problematic Christian events like the Crusades and the Inquisition, for example.

Well I'm lost. Is this about "othering" or being consumed by the love of Jesus and finding identity in him? Honestly I didn't hear the connection? Does anyone have a time stamp?

True freedom is found in Christ not in Islam.

regarding the points she makes about the difference of Christianity and Islam just wait till she finds out that the Quran says (10:99) Had your Lord willed, all the people on earth would have believed, all of them entirely. Is it, then, up to you to compel People to believe? (2:256) Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in God hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And God heareth and knoweth all things. -- and then a whole chapter about the disbelievers and what to say and how to treat them, called "al kafirun, or disbelievers"-109 1. Say, “O disbelievers. 2. I do not worship what you worship. 3. Nor do you worship what I worship. 4. Nor do I serve what you serve. 5. Nor do you serve what I serve. 6. You have your way, and I have my way.” ____ so i don't know how the so called judeo-christian faith is saying this ^ ,and the Quran doesn't... although i accept that some Muslim countries are not totally in line with the scriptures... but that shouldn't confuse the mind of a scholar... in my opinion just as we don't equate Christian's atrocities (like the inquisition and forcing the christian belief on their colonies and tribal people) with the teachings of the Christ

Thanks for your wonderful videos. I want to tell her: the Bibel doesn't tell us how old the universe and the earth is. It tells us THAT the universe had a beginning and hence a transcendend personal Creator. The Hebrew word for "day" in Genesis has different meanings, one is era.

The real issue for Ayaan is has she had her personal encounter with the risen Lord? It's the vertical dimension NOT the horizontal discussing whether or to what extent of the existence of the vertical. The result of the encounter with the risen Lord is the new birth of John 3:3. Maybe I'm wrong but I see Ayaan a bit like the wolf (friendly) getting used to Lt John Dunbar. She still needs to accept, perhaps that she too is a sinner needing redemption rather than evaluating the academics of which belief system is closest to God and therefore best for humanity.

Isn’t the question which god brings the best fruits/the most human flourishing?

She is right. "Is there 'a' God?" WHAT is God? exists without being made? Where does our sense of fairness and goodness come from? Ayaan does not think that SHE is all-knowing, anyway. She works with what she has and what she can do.

NOBODY can say thy "know" how it all began but to create a God concept to explain it. is simply a faith based thing for which there is no evidence. Is this wise ?

If any of them would have said the things you want, atheist would have just gone the "they're delusional" route. Instead, she and the others spoke about the 'smoke' we live best in, and where their is smoke, their is fire. They showed that Christianity is reasonable, rational; the fire is there and it exists even if you don't speak about it in every conversation.

Niesche IS fun, for a time. But certainly Christianity, indeed Judeo-Christian life, is better to live by.

I stopped watching after "...of discovering TRUTH."

An athiest position is simply being sceptical of religious priests supernatural 'truth' claims. This is a perfect reasonable position and one which Ayaan takes. Christianity has thankfully been largely domesticated and she wishes Islam could follow but realises this is a far more difficult proposition.

Without god or higher power you cannot get humanism. Basically without superstitious beliefs you cannot be good. This is so delusional. She is using this mythology as utility becasue she cannot cope with reality. Not believing these unfalsifiable concepts does not lead to nihilistic behavior (no evidence for that). This is not hard. This is the only life hence why we can place value on this life.

You mean to say that the fruit contains the seed? Who knew? ;-)

Please 🙏 come to Jesus come to Islam ☪️ Jesus a beloved prophet of Islam ☪️

Modern man has been around for approx 300,000 years , that's 298,000 years give or take without your christian god, I think we'll do just fine without the christian god

How desperate! Ayaan does not profess belief that the Christian god exists, does not profess that Jesus existed, died and was resurrected, does not profess belief in life after death through belief in Jesus, etc, etc, etc. Exactly how is Ayaan a Christian again?

lol

Extremely disappointing. She was my hero. No more.

What a freek....sad she left Islam but I guess she was paid enough for her lies and slander