Sam Harris showcases the severity of his Trump derangement syndrome



Atheist podcaster Sam Harris has made no secret of his antipathy toward President Donald Trump. Harris has, for instance, called Trump "the most dangerous cult leader on Earth"; blamed him for "how divisive our politics have become"; accused him of paving the way for fascism in America; and deemed him "one of the most prolific liars our species has produced."

Harris — who argued in an October debate with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro that Kamala Harris was the optimal choice in the 2024 presidential election — still appears to be having trouble coping with Trump's popularity and reelection over 120 days into the president's second term.

'I would rather have a president in a coma where the duties of the presidency are executed by a committee of just normal people, right.'

Indeed, the atheist intellectual suggested during the May 23 episode of his "Making Sense" podcast that the efforts to cover up former President Joe Biden's mental decline — efforts recently acknowledged by Jake Tapper, a longtime proponent of the false competency narrative — were problematic but potentially warranted, or at the very least understandable, in the face of an "awful choice."

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Harris admitted that he would have preferred the coverup to have succeeded, telling his manager Jaron Lowenstein, "I would prefer a comatose president to the president we now have."

"Even that is preferable to me — and to, I think, many Democrats — than having someone who we consider to be genuinely evil ... genuinely 100% purposed to serving himself in the office of the presidency," continued the atheist. "I would rather have a president in a coma where the duties of the presidency are executed by a committee of just normal people, right."

'Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement.'

Harris presented his preferred option of a cabal of unelected insiders usurping the powers of the democratically-elected president as a hypothetical; however, it appears to have been, at least in effect, more or less the reality of the Biden presidency in its final months.

After all, staffers and family members reportedly were making decisions on Biden's behalf while radicals in his orbit allegedly used his signature to advance their own agendas.

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While Harris' admission that he would prefer rule by an unelected committee is likely proof enough that he suffers from the so-called "Trump Derangement Syndrome" that Republican lawmakers now want the National Institutes of Health to study, Harris appears to have provided ample material for a diagnosis.

For instance, Harris suggested in 2022 that the media was responsible for preventing Trump from retaking power, even if that meant censoring the truth about the Hunter Biden laptop.

"Listen, I don't care what's in Hunter Biden's laptop," Harris said. "I mean, at that point, Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement, I would not have cared."

While acknowledging the media had suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story and that there indeed was a "leftwing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump," Harris said "it was warranted."

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Critics blast liberal reporter for seizing upon hurricane devastation to belittle North Carolinians' beliefs



The Guardian, a leftist publication based in the U.K., is facing criticism over a Sunday article that seized upon the devastation wrought in North Carolina by Hurricane Helene as an opportunity to belittle locals' beliefs, attack President Donald Trump, and push a climate alarmist agenda.

The article was penned by the Guardian's "senior climate justice reporter" Nina Lakhani — a British national who previously suggested that nTrump was a terrorist and a fascist; pushed the Russian collusion hoax; claimed that America's border wall created "environmental and cultural scars"; advocated for banning white men from positions of power; and called the British monarchy a "white supremacist institution."

After insinuating that Trump and Elon Musk were to blame for delayed disaster relief, the Guardian reporter expressed concern that in her travels through Buncombe County, North Carolina, "the climate crisis was largely absent from people's thoughts" in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

Resident Twila Little Brave, for instance, told the Guardian about her struggles in the wake of the hurricane, her gratitude about being alive, and how the efforts of her community, not her government, helped her survived the ordeal.

Sharon Jarvis, a 59-year-old woman who lives on a mountain slope on the outskirts of the community, criticized the Biden administration's disaster relief or lack thereof and noted that Christian relief groups, local churches, and other volunteer or nonprofit groups — not the government — stepped into the breach to help.

David Crowder, the pastor at a Barnardsville Baptist church, discussed tough living conditions along with potential threats to local pride and the storm's transformation of the landscape.

Since Brave, Jarvis, and Crowder failed to furnish Lakhani with the talking points the foreign reporter needed for her preferred narrative, Lakhani clumsily shoehorned them into the piece herself with the help of fellow travelers.

'We've failed to communicate this in a way that reaches some of the most vulnerable people.'

Lakhani insinuated that Brave and others who "have found comfort from attributing Helene to God's will" were ignoramuses, noting that "the science is clear: the intensity of the wind and rain during Helene was supercharged by the climate crisis, and the frequency and severity of such storms will increase as the planet continues to warm — driven by the world's dependence on the burning of fossil fuels."

While dismissive of locals' religious beliefs, Lakhani appeared more than willing to accept as gospel truth an assertion from Thomas Karl, the former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information, that might rely on misleading and inaccurate claims.

Lakhani shared Karl's belief that "these events will become more intense and stronger. But somehow we've failed to communicate this in a way that reaches some of the most vulnerable people, while they're getting false information from places they trust."

The government watchdog group Protect the Public's Trust noted in a complaint last year that the NOAA's Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters tracking project relies on economic data and cannot as a consequence "distinguish the effect of climate change as a factor on disaster losses from the effect of human factors like increases in the vulnerability and exposure of people and wealth to disaster damages due to population and economic growth."

'This is a vile, mean-spirited article.'

The so-called Billions Project not only has been been cited in over 1,200 articles but has been characterized by the U.S. Global Change Research Program as a "climate change indicator" and had its data cited in 2023 as evidence that "extreme events are becoming more frequent and severe" in the same federal program's "Fifth National Climate Assessment."

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. noted in a study published June in the Springer Nature journal npj Natural Hazards:

NOAA incorrectly claims that for some types of extreme weather, the dataset demonstrates detection and attribution of changes on climate timescales. Similarly flawed are NOAA's claims that increasing annual counts of billion dollar disasters are in part a consequence of human caused climate change. NOAA's claims to have achieved detection and attribution are not supported by any scientific analysis that it has performed.

Despite outstanding questions about the veracity of claims of intensifying weather, Lakhani framed Karl's statement as the "clear science," then echoed his concern about the germination of alternate viewpoints regarding the storm and broader weather patterns.

Lakhani complained that "false rumors and conspiracy theories," as well as "fossil fuel-friendly" narratives, appear "to resonate among even those directly hit by floods and fires."

When criticizing so-called "disinformation," Lakhani turned to a fellow traveler to shore up her narrative — Sean Buchan, the so-called research director at the leftist censorship outfit Climate Action Against Disinformation.

Buchan appeared to insinuate that rural North Carolinians and other disaster-struck Americans were not smart enough to grasp "climate science" because it is "complicated and nuanced and requires patience." As a result of locals' supposed inability to understand what he and Lakhani believe to be true, Buchan suggested that "propagandists and bad actors will show up in person or online to fill the information vacuum."

Matt Van Swol, a former nuclear scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory, called the Guardian article "absolutely disgusting."

"This is a vile, mean-spirited article from The Guardian," continued Van Swol. "Everything mountain-folk HATE about big city reporters is covered in this article."

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Catholic League answers atheists' Christmas grouchery with bold 'Christmas gift'



Atheists routinely come out of the woodwork around Christmastime to remind their fellow Americans about their antipathy to Christianity. In apparent hopes of provoking American Christians and/or dissuading them from marking the occasion with public displays such as Nativity scenes, some activists have in recent years erected satanic altars and pagan installations on government property.

So far, this year has been no different.

The Freedom from Religion Foundation, among the groups apparently hoping to pre-empt the celebration of Christ's birth with protest, set up an atheist display at the Wisconsin Capitol for the 29th consecutive year. The provocation from the activist group did not, however, go unanswered.

Unlike Christian Navy veteran Michael Cassidy who toppled the Satanic Temple's Baphomet statue at the Iowa Capitol last year, the Catholic League opted to respond to the FFRF's display with a bigger display of its own.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue said in a statement, "Call it our Christmas gift to them."

Earlier this month, the Satanic Temple erected a statue of a demon outside the state house in Concord, New Hampshire. The goat-headed demon statue — an apparent counter to the nearby Christmas tree and Nativity display — was dressed in purple vestments marked with inverted crosses and placed next to what appeared to be a black-and-white American flag knockoff with the stars swapped out for the symbol of the Satanic Temple.

Although vandals allegedly smashed the statue overnight, it was subsequently restored.

This week, the Minnesota Satanists, a chapter of the Satanic Temple, set up a satanic display mocking the Lord's Prayer and the Eucharist at the Minnesota State Capitol. The display featured a horned phoenix and a pentacle medallion along with a document titled "you are your own god."

Andrew T. Walker, associate professor of Christian ethics and public theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, noted, "It was wrong when Iowa satanists did this and it is wrong when Minnesota satanists do this, too. This obscenity is not what our Founders envisioned for religious liberty protections."

'Celebrate the Birth of Christ.'

The FFRF, a group whose members have adopted the ahistorical view that "most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free of religion," similarly got in on the action. The atheist group set up its annual "Winter Solstice" exhibit at the Wisconsin Capitol.

A golden sign accompanying the exhibit says, "At this season of the Winter Solstice, may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but a myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."

Although there was no mistaking the antagonistic nature of the exhibit, the FFRF made clear in a statement that it was responding to and mocking the Nativity scene.

In a statement, the group explained the corresponding cutout:

A major addition to the exhibit in the Capitol for over half a decade has been FFRF’s Bill of Rights "nativity," in response to a Christian Nativity display. The irreverent cutout by artist Jacob Fortin depicts Founders Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington gazing in adoration at a "baby" Bill of Rights while the Statue of Liberty looks on.

The Catholic League noted in a Monday release, "Every year the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a group of Christian-hating atheists, likes to erect a silly Winter Solstice exhibit at the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. This year they are in for a surprise. We have decided to send these activists a lesson, reminding them that the Christmas season is our season."

The Catholic League has a 12'x50' billboard displayed in the vicinity of Madison — home to the FFRF's headquarters — on the beltway that reads, "ATHEISTS STRIKE OUT AT CHRISTMAS. Celebrating Winter Solstice is a Child's Game. This Is Our Season — Not Theirs. Celebrate the Birth of Christ. Merry Christmas."

"Their stunt is done to compete with, and therefore neuter, the meaning of the Nativity scene at Christmas. The billboard will be up for two weeks, until Dec. 29," Donohue told the Christian Post.

Donohue indicated that he hopes "our billboard emboldens Catholics, letting them know that we will not be bullied by our adversaries."

The FFRF, which previously insinuated that Christians' faith has left them with hardened hearts and enslaved minds, responded to the news of the billboard, tweeting, "The scrooges at the Catholic League really know how to spread love and joy during the holiday season."

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Dawkins can't believe his atheist ally has become a Christian. Ayaan Hirsi Ali explains the error of his doubt.



Ayaan Hirsi Ali was once a central figure among the so-called "New Atheists." She revealed in a Nov. 11, 2023, op-ed that she had converted to Christianity, both for the meaning it provides as well as for its unifying doctrine, which she wrote can "fortify us against our menacing foes."

Militant atheist Richard Dawkins, her longtime friend and "mentor," penned an open letter to Ali three days later, suggesting the Dutch-American human rights activist, mother, and staunch critic of Islam was insincere about her newfound faith.

"You are no more a Christian than I am," wrote Dawkins. "No, Ayaan, you are not a Christian, you are just a decent human being who mistakenly thinks you need a religion in order to remain so."

It appears Ali's sincerity is just one more thing Dawkins has managed to get wrong.

Ali appeared on stage Saturday with Dawkins for the inaugural Dissident Dialogues conference in New York City, where she identified a number of her past intellectual missteps — apparent missteps Dawkins is alternatively committed to keep making — and made abundantly clear both to the audience and Dawkins that she does, in fact, believe in God, pray, and follow Christ.

The former atheist's profession of faith and admission of past errors electrified the audience, which appeared altogether keen to celebrate both Dawkins' loss of a fellow traveler and Christians' gain of a sister.

Background

Blaze News previously reported that Ali, who lives under a fatwa, was raised Muslim in Somalia. Under what she came to regard as a "nihilistic cult of death," Ali suffered genital mutilation, was denied her artistic loves, and was married off to a distant cousin.

While already chased down the road to apostasy by brutal oppression, the Sept. 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks on the U.S. helped accelerate Ali's rejection of Islam. Ali's antipathy toward Islam apparently prompted her not only to reject the Muslim faith but "to adopt an attitude of scepticism towards religious doctrine, discard my faith in God and declare that no such entity existed."

Decades later, she recognized that atheism is a "weak and divisive doctrine."

Ali explained last year in an article for UnHerd that she became a Christian in part because the faith equips believers to internally and externally fight the evils of the day — battles atheism is at best useless in but more often than not on the wrong side of.

Quoting the Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton, Ali stressed that "when men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything."

"We can't withstand China, Russia and Iran if we can't explain to our populations why it matters that we do. We can't fight woke ideology if we can't defend the civilisation that it is determined to destroy. And we can't counter Islamism with purely secular tools," wrote Ali. "Unless we offer something as meaningful, I fear the erosion of our civilisation will continue. And fortunately, there is no need to look for some new-age concoction of medication and mindfulness. Christianity has it all."

Ali indicated, however, that Christianity was not simply a sword and a shield for the wars of the age but also a source of ultimate meaning.

"I have also turned to Christianity because I ultimately found life without any spiritual solace unendurable — indeed very nearly self-destructive," wrote Ali. "Atheism failed to answer a simple question: what is the meaning and purpose of life?"

Dawkins loses an ally

Dawkins, now a self-described "Cultural Christian," responded to Ali's profession of faith on Substack with his characteristic disbelief, writing, "Christianity makes factual claims, truth claims that Christians believe, truth claims that define them as Christian. Christians are theists. They believe in a divine father figure who designed the universe, listens to our prayers, is privy to our every thought. You surely don't believe that."

"Do you believe Jesus rose from the grave three days after being placed there? Of course you don’t. Do you believe Jesus was born to a virgin? Certainly not," wrote Dawkins. "Someone of your intelligence does not believe you have an immortal soul, which will survive the decay of your brain. Christians believe in a frightful place called Hell, where the souls of the wicked go after they are dead. Do you believe that? Hell no!"

In his response, the atheist conceded Ali's points that Christianity might have "been the inspiration for some of the greatest art, architecture and music the world has ever known," "is morally superior to Islam," and might be "a powerful weapon" against "Putinism, Islamism, and postmodernish wokery pokery" but suggested that such an understanding does not make one a Christian.

Dawkins further suggested that by embracing Christianity, she had succumbed to "weakness."

In March, Dawkins doubled-down, accusing Ali of being a "Political Christian" and noting, "Let's not agree to differ. Let's agree that we don't really differ."

Soulful showdown

Ali addressed Dawkins' doubts about her faith Saturday, indicated she is far more than just a "Political Christian," and expressed regret for having previously aided militant atheists in their attack on religion, reported UnHerd.

With regards to the sincerity of her belief, Ali made clear that while she regards Christianity as critically important from a secular and political viewpoint, she has connected with the faith on a spiritual level and believes in its supernatural propositions.

"On the personal level, yes, I choose to believe in God. And I think that there, we might say, let's agree to disagree," she said. "I think it's something subjective, and it's a choice and there are things that you see and perceive that a different person cannot perceive."

"I'd say you're coming at this from a place of 'there is nothing,' and what has happened to me is that, I think, I have accepted that there is something," said Ali. "When you accept that there is something, there is a powerful entity, for me, the God that turned me around, I think what the vicar is saying no longer sounds nonsensical."

"It makes a great deal of sense, and not only does it make a great deal of sense, it's also layered with the wisdom of millennia," said the former atheist. "And so, like you, I did mock faith in general, Christianity in particular, but I don't do that anymore, and again, I think that's where humility comes into it."

The former atheist's journey to Christ appears to have not only required great humility but some helpful advice.

"I've come down to my knees to say perhaps those people who have always had faith have something that we who lost faith don't have, and people who have faith also, like the woman who told me, 'You ... fight everything and you've lost hope, you've lost faith. Try it. Pray.' I think just in that one word there is so much wisdom," added Ali.

When Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote that she had become Christian, it sounded political.\n\nBut last night she revealed what happened: a spiritual awakening after suicidal depression. Dawkins probed, highlighting \u201cnonsense the vicar says\u201d and Christianity being \u201cobsessed with sin.\u201d Then:
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Dawkins recycled one of his go-to smears, suggesting Christianity is obsessed with sin. Ali didn't buy the atheist's premise.

"I find that Christianity is actually obsessed with love," Ali said, eliciting applause from the audience. "The teaching of Christ as I see it — and again, I'm a brand new Christian — but what I'm finding out, which is the opposite of growing up as a Muslim and the message of Islam, but the message of Christianity of love. It's a message of redemption."

"It's a story of renewal and birth," continued Ali. "And so, Jesus dying and rising again for me symbolizes that story, and in a small way, I felt I had died and was reborn. And that story of redemption and birth, I think makes Christianity actually a very, very powerful story for the human condition, of human existence."

When Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote that she had become Christian, it sounded political.\n\nBut last night she revealed what happened: a spiritual awakening after suicidal depression. Dawkins probed, highlighting \u201cnonsense the vicar says\u201d and Christianity being \u201cobsessed with sin.\u201d Then:
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Atheist Richard Dawkins now labels himself a 'cultural Christian': Here's why



Famous atheist Richard Dawkins has spent years criticizing religion, but in a recent interview, Dawkins told Rachel Johnson of LBC, “I count myself a cultural Christian.”

“I love hymns and Christmas carols, and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos. If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I choose Christianity every single time,” Dawkins continued.

He explained his reason being that Christianity is a “fundamentally decent religion” while “Islam is not.”

When questioned on this belief, he responded that the Quran is fundamentally hostile to women and gays, and he likes “to live in a culturally Christian country,” although he doesn’t “believe a single word of the Christian faith.”

Pat Gray is shocked.

“That seems like a shift in his ethos, if you will,” he says.

“I will say, cultural Christianity from Richard Dawkins [is] pretty interesting. You know why? Because he has seen the decay of society and civilization, that’s why. He sees our very civilization crumbling around us and what keeps it together,” Gray adds.

America was founded on Christian values, and Dawkins is recognizing what happens when the masses reject those values.

“Once you’ve built your foundation on those principles and then people start taking a jackhammer to it, something bad is going to happen. And he understands that now,” Gray says.


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Republican lawmaker blasts museum for featuring satanic tree at Christmas festival: 'Upside-down cultural propaganda'



The National Railroad Museum in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, is getting into the Christmas spirit with hot chocolate, holiday sing-alongs, and a train ride dressed up as the titular railway from "The Polar Express" for children. The museum also figured it's the season to greet families with a satanic monument and an LGBT propaganda stand.

A Republican congressman has joined some locals in blasting the museum, calling its inclusion of exhibits celebrating the devil and child sex changes "offensive, upside-down cultural propaganda."

The museum is currently celebrating its annual Festival of Trees event, which runs from Nov. 16 until Dec. 31. The festival has been around since 2007 and is reportedly one of the museum's biggest fundraisers.

The Green Bay Press-Gazette indicated that there is nothing explicitly Christian about 60 of the 66 trees featured this year. However, two of the trees are outright hostile to Christianity and the beliefs of its adherents.

The Wisconsin chapter of the Satanic Temple successfully entered its red-lit tree into the festival. The tree is adorned with Luciferian symbols and topped with a red pentacle. In addition to upside-down crosses, there is an ornament that says, "HAIL SANTA."

At the base of the tree is what appears to be a coiled snake along with an icon of the demon Baphomet, depicted with uncovered breasts.

The Satanic Temple is an atheistic leftist organization that has sought to ensure that women can legally have their unborn children killed by way of their "religious abortion ritual"; distributed satanic literature to children; publicly performed "unbaptisms"; held a demonization ceremony in protest of the canonization of the Catholic Spanish priest Junípero Serra; and erected statues of Baphomet on government property.

Blaze News previously indicated that the temple also runs an online clinic out of New Mexico that distributes abortion drugs, which the group has dubbed "Samuel Alito's Mom's Satanic Abortion Clinic."

Jacqueline Frank, the CEO of the museum, told the Press-Gazette that upon receiving the satanists' application to sponsor and decorate a tree, "There was no hesitation. We're not a religious organization. We focus on trains."

"And honestly, the Christmas tree is used by so many different secular and religious organizations. All we're doing is putting up decoration in that room," said Frank.

While the museum has a rule against decorations promoting violence, sexual content, and drug abuse, Frank evidently figured the depiction of a demon with breasts exposed was all right for a museum welcoming families with young children.

Frank underscored that she was proud to include the anti-Christian activist group's tree and would "absolutely" have the organization back next year.

The other leftist tree featured at Frank's festival was decorated by the radical Bay Area Council on Gender Diversity.

The BACGD is an activist group that advocates on behalf of transvestites and provides a drop-in opportunity for gender-dysphoric minors from the greater Green Bay area.

The transvestite activists' tree is decorated with numerous so-called transgender flag along with agitprop ornaments. One ornament read, "Protect Trans Kids." Another stated, "Drag queen." Other ornaments reportedly affirmed gender dysphoria and transvestism.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," "It's impossible to overstate how offensive this is to Christians. It would be, in quite a literal sense, the same thing as waving a Hamas flag inside of a synagogue."

"Conservatives are often accused of launching a culture war or focusing or fixating on cultural issues. But here is a perfect example of how that's not what's happening. What's happening is we're just trying to defend basic traditions or defend our children in the midst of these basic traditions from the encroachment of woke ideology or offensive, upside-down cultural propaganda," said Gallagher.

"The shame of it is ... every year the National Railroad Museum does something very interesting and cool and fun for kids, which is they do a big screening of 'Polar Express' and you're surrounded by all the trains, and it's a cool, fun thing to take your kids to," continued Gallagher. "But now ... I don't want my kids to be surrounded by satanic trees."

Matt Batzel, executive director of the conservative grassroots outfit American Majority, tweeted, "Outrageous! National Railroad Museum features a Satanic worship tree."

Pasor Luke Farwell of De Pere, Wisconsin, told Fox News Digital that when he questioned the museum over the the satanic tree, he was met with rhetoric about "inclusivity."

"It seemed a little bizarre to me that someone, based on that, would think it was appropriate to have a Satanic Temple Christmas tree — or tree, I should say. I won't dignify it by calling it a Christmas tree," said Farwell.

Farwell suggested that Christians aren't afforded the kind of latitude they are expected to show radical leftists when it comes to the public expression and profession of their deeply held views. The pastor also noted that the leftists may have a legal right to advance their viewpoints but ought to understand that "Christians find these things to be offensive or definitely targeting them in terms of belittling their faith or how they celebrate the holidays."

The pastor appealed to an insight from C.S. Lewis in closing, quoting the Christian writer as saying, "There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan."

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Prominent atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali publicly professes her newfound faith: 'Christianity has it all'



A central figure among the so-called "New Atheists" revealed in an essay Monday that she has turned to Christianity, not only for the meaning and solace it provides but for its strong and unifying doctrine, which she reckons can "fortify us against our menacing foes."

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch-American women's rights activist, mother, and former politician who ruffled feathers by calling Islam a "nihilistic cult of death" beyond reforming, noted in UnHerd that atheism is a "weak and divisive doctrine" that offers no hope, no anchorage, and no defense against destructive forces at home and abroad.

Ali, who still lives under a fatwa, was raised Muslim in Somalia. In addition to suffering genital mutilation and getting married off to a distant cousin, she was told that many of the things she loved, including music, dancing, and movies, were accursed worldly pleasures and instruments of damnation. Her encounters with the Muslim Brotherhood in Kenya helped cement her antipathy for Islam.

Although no longer a practicing Muslim at the time, Ali noted that the Sept. 11, 2001, Islamist attacks on the United States expedited her rejection of religion. The next year, she read British mathematician Bertrand Russell's 1927 lecture "Why I Am Not a Christian" and "found [her] cognitive dissonance easing."

"It was a relief to adopt an attitude of scepticism towards religious doctrine, discard my faith in God and declare that no such entity existed," wrote Ali. "Best of all, I could reject the existence of hell and the danger of everlasting punishment."

Apparently satisfied with the prospect of rotting in the ground, as Russell posited, rather than in some infernal destination, Ali went on to become a prominent atheist, speaking at various conventions and winning the adulation of various secularists.

David Silverman, the former president of the anti-religion organization American Atheists, touted Ali as a "champion of atheist thought" and "atheism activism" ahead of her 2015 keynote speech at the American Atheists National Convention.

Ali suggested that while the fear she had been convinced was a feature of religion had not gone away with her embrace of atheism, she was nevertheless confident that she had made the right choice. After all, "the atheists were clever" and a "great deal of fun," particularly the late Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.

However, good wit and good times were not enough to slake Ali's thirst for meaning.

Ali indicated that her conversion to Christianity — which she previously wished for Muslims across the world — is the result of multiple factors.

"Part of the answer is global. Western civilisation is under threat from three different but related forces: the resurgence of great-power authoritarianism and expansionism in the forms of the Chinese Community Party and Vladimir Putin's Russia; the rise of global Islamism, which threatens to mobilise a vast population against the West; and the viral spread of woke ideology, which is eating into the moral fibre of the next generation," wrote Ali.

According to Ali, secular tools have proven wholly ineffective against these dark forces.

"We can't fight off these formidable forces unless we can answer the question: what is it that unites? The response that 'God is dead!' seems insufficient. So, too, does the attempt to find solace in 'the rules-based liberal international order,'" she continued. "The only credible answer, I believe, lies in our desire to uphold the legacy of the Judeo-Christian tradition."

Noting that the cultural, legal, and social inheritance secularists most prize is rooted in Christianity, Ali said, "I have come to realise that Russell and my atheist friends failed to see the wood for the trees. The wood is the civilisation built on the Judeo-Christian tradition; it is the story of the West, warts and all."

Trouncing the West's internal and external foes is not Ali's only reason for embracing the faith.

"I have also turned to Christianity because I ultimately found life without any spiritual solace unendurable — indeed very nearly self-destructive," wrote Ali. "Atheism failed to answer a simple question: what is the meaning and purpose of life?"

Ali noted that Russell's presumption that "reason and intelligent humanism" come after the fall of religion was wrong. The "God hole" left in the human heart has not gone away but rather has been "filled by a jumble of irrational quasi-religious dogma. The result is a world where modern cults prey on the dislocated masses, offering them spurious reasons for being and action — mostly by engaging in virtue-signalling theatre on behalf of a victimised minority or our supposedly doomed planet."

Quoting the Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton, who penned an essay defending his religiosity a year before Russell's lecture, Ali underscored that "when men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything."

"We can't withstand China, Russia and Iran if we can't explain to our populations why it matters that we do. We can't fight woke ideology if we can't defend the civilisation that it is determined to destroy. And we can't counter Islamism with purely secular tools," wrote Ali. "Unless we offer something as meaningful, I fear the erosion of our civilisation will continue. And fortunately, there is no need to look for some new-age concoction of medication and mindfulness. Christianity has it all."

While admitting she has "a great deal to learn about Christianity," Ali indicated she understands that it is "a better way to manage the challenges of existence than either Islam or unbelief had to offer."

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FASCINATING: Does the right need MORE atheism? Here’s one evolutionary biologist’s compelling argument



One of the biggest debates of our current day revolves around gender. What is gender? How is it different from biological sex? Do feelings determine truth?

Allie Beth Stuckey invites evolutionary biologist Dr. Colin Wright on the show to discuss these highly inflammatory topics.

Surprisingly, Allie and Dr. Wright agree on a number of these controversies despite the fact that Dr. Wright is an atheist while Allie is a Christian.

“Men who are naturally very feminine – this doesn't mean they're born in the wrong body; this doesn't mean they have a gender identity of a female,” says Dr. Wright, adding that it’s entirely possible and even normal for someone to be “gender non-conforming.”

“Sex atypicality is a thing; this shouldn’t be shunned,” but how someone chooses to express themselves should not affect “sports and changing rooms [and] what prisons you go to,” he tells Allie.

Where the two differ is on the subject of the origins of truth. While Allie sees God as the ultimate arbiter of truth, Dr. Wright looks to science.

But does this ultimately matter when they arrive at the same conclusion? Both agree biological sex is fixed and that someone’s feelings do not change that, even if they arrived at that conclusion via different ideologies.

Dr. Wright even says that despite his “evolutionary perspective,” he connects better with Christians than the woke crowd because Christians and atheists both “acknowledge the reality of biological sex,” while progressives “think their reality is constructed through language.”

And since this gender debate has grown even more intense and divisive, Dr. Wright thinks Republicans would be wise to embrace more atheists.

In a recent interview between Charlie Kirk and Tucker Carlson, Tucker said that he finds atheism – the complete rejection of divinity – “childish” and “hilarious.”

To this, Dr. Wright responded with “the right needs more atheism.”

“What I don't mean is that I think the people on the right who are Christians need to convert to atheism and denounce their God,” he clarifies.

“I think that there are a lot of atheists who are disaffected from the left,” he explains, adding that many prominent figures in the atheist community are “opposed to the woke takeover.”

“A lot of us feel politically homeless,” he explains, “and we feel more affinity to the values that we see that are over on the right that are shared by many Christians, even though we're not Christian ourselves.”

Dr. Wright thinks that the right needs to focus on “shared values” rather than “where these values came from” and in doing so grow the number of people fighting to save objective truth.

“Some core principle values related to free speech … [and] the limits of certain governments – you know, these are the things that I think matter most in terms of morality and connecting with people” rather than “was this the result of evolution or was this … done by a divine creator,” he tells Allie.

To hear their full conversation, watch the video below.


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Thanks, Sam Harris. I’m Totally An Atheist Now | Ep 664