Is this an April Fool’s Joke? Only time will tell.
Leah Libresco, who’d been a prominent atheist blogger for the religion website Patheos, announced on her blog this week that after years of debating many “smart Christians,” she has decided to become one herself, and that she has begun the process of converting to Catholicism.
Libresco, who had long blogged under the banner “Unequally Yoked: A geeky atheist picks fights with her Catholic boyfriend,” said that at the heart of her decision were questions of morality and how one finds a moral compass.
More from CNN (video).
You really ought to read Rod Dreher’s blog, DADvocate, you’d probably like it. He was blogging about this last week.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/religious-enthusiasm-limits/
Sort of fits with my assertion that atheism requires a matter of faith. This lady has simply converted religions. There is, to my knowledge, no definitive proof that there is a God or that there is not a God. GIven current cosmology concepts, it is not neessary to have a God for creation, and, in my opinion, man is fully capable of being moral without recourse to an external deity.
from what I read of her blog, she wasn’t a materialist, but rather believed that things like math and morals exist independent of humans.
Not really what I’d call an atheist. Seems like Catholicism was an easy jump for her.
Well, for me to be consistent, I’d say that she was an atheist if she claimed to not believe in a god. But yeah, that is a belief that doesn’t seem to make much sense if you are an atheist. Then again, there are atheists who believe in psychics, which also doesn’t make much sense to me – but they still get to be atheists.
Math does exist independently of humans. My religious beliefs have evolved and changed over the course of my life, but I’ve never doubted the objective existence of mathematical truth. The great Kurt Gödel, among others, held that view, too.
I’ll go ahead and grant you that one – I was thinking more about morals than math when I made my response. Still, even if I’d grant the bit about morals, it still seems like an odd jump to go from there to saying, “I’ll convert to Catholicism!”
Again, I need to read up on her reasons a bit more. Who knows? Maybe she’s figured something out. I’m not necessarily holding my breath though.
Sorry about the wonky editing – the only thing that should be in quotes is the first sentence where I quote Edward.
Atheists often use logic to promote their views that God does not exist. Ironically, it was logic that let Libresco to belief. More on my blog at http://www.jasongriffin.net/blog/2012/6/24/an-atheist-converts-to-christianity-logic-flows-both-ways.html
If what you wrote was indeed her reasoning, then there are some gaping holes in that logic. Even if I grant you your initial premise (which I don’t) that doesn’t automatically mean that God (especially a specific denomination’s definition of a specific god) becomes a logical answer.