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.
“I had one thing that I was most certain of, which is that morality is something we have a duty to,” Libresco told CNN in an interview this week, a small cross dangling from her neck. “And it is external from us. And when push came to shove, that is the belief I wouldn’t let go of. And that is something I can’t prove.”
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Libresco’s announcement has left some atheists scratching their heads.
“I think atheists were surprised that she went with Catholicism, which seems like a very specific choice,” Hemant Mehta, an atheist blogger at Patheos, told CNN. “I have a hard time believing how someone could jump from I don’t believe in God to a very specific church and a very specific God.”
Mehta says that Libresco’s conversion is a “one-off thing” and not something that signals any trend in atheism. “The trends are very clear, the conversions from Catholicism to atheism are much more likely to happen than the other way around,” he said.Please, read the entire article here.
Commentary. Well, this goes to show you that it happens, that there's such a thing as "grace" and when grace touches one's intellect, solid conclusions regarding "imponderables" from the viewpoint of the reigning positivistic "scientism" end up pushing away the latter's ultimate irrationality.
Note too what Mehta said regarding conversions. Yes, Mr. Mehta, Catholics becoming atheists may be a more frequent event, but that's because the really smart atheists are the ones finding the truth in Jesus Christ and coming home to the Church. That's why they make the news. Catholics - or other believers for that matter - becoming atheists is common place and so ho-hum. It's easy to stunt one's intellect to become an atheist; it's harder to heal it and become a son or daughter of God in the order of grace.