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SEE THIS ATHEIST BLOGGER‘S STUNNING ANNOUNCEMENT THAT SHE’S CONVERTING TO CATHOLICISM
Blaze ^ | June 19, 2012

Posted on 06/20/2012 6:20:30 AM PDT by NYer

Atheist Leah Libresco Announces Conversion to Catholicism

Atheist blogger Leah Libresco shocked the secular community this week when she announced on her Patheos blog that she has converted to Christianity. Her article, entitled, “This is my last post for the Patheos Atheist Portal,” explained her conversion to Catholicism, which has sent shock-waves through the atheist blogosphere.

In her post, Libresco details her personal struggles with understanding the root of moral law. Obviously, non-believers don’t see morality as coming from a central source. Instead, they see humanity as living on its own, disconnected from any fertile source of knowledge and goodness. For Libresco, this ideal has come full-circle, as she inevitably arrived at an understanding that aligns with a Christ-centered world-view.

Debate after debate and discussion after discussion, the non-believing blogger details how she found herself constantly exploring this paradigm — that is, until she finally accepted the notion that truth and moral goodness come from God. She explains:

I believed that the Moral Law wasn’t just a Platonic truth, abstract and distant. It turns out I actually believed it was some kind of Person, as well as Truth. And there was one religion that seemed like the most promising way to reach back to that living Truth. I asked my friend what he suggest we do now, and we prayed the night office of the Liturgy of the Hours together (I’ve kept up with that since). Then I suggested hugs and playing Mumford and Sons really, really loudly.



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To: trailhkr1

But in an evolutionist interpretation of history, how would such altruism come about in the first place?


21 posted on 06/20/2012 8:27:36 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Salvation; narses; Iscool

Looks like another found their way home


22 posted on 06/20/2012 8:42:59 AM PDT by verga (Party like it is 1773)
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To: NYer

bump


23 posted on 06/20/2012 8:51:24 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: NYer
they see humanity as living on its own, disconnected from any fertile source of knowledge and goodness

Well, unless they understand nature herself as the source of both intelligibility and moral order (like the Stoics or Aristotle).

It's a more difficult case to make if you have a hard materialism (like the Epicureans or Hobbes), but it can still be made.

The main difficulty for contemporary atheists is that they also want to do away with any normative sense of the natural.

24 posted on 06/20/2012 9:09:52 AM PDT by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If this is sincere, blessings to her. I’m a recent convert
to Catholocism at a later age. However an “atheist blogger”
with a photo of her in radio gear? She could be looking for
a project.Maybe write about her “experiences” and have more
material to blog about, go on the radio, etc.

Pardon me, but, well, we’ll see..


25 posted on 06/20/2012 10:30:26 AM PDT by americas.best.days...
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To: NYer


26 posted on 06/20/2012 10:43:14 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: NYer

SInce probably half or so of self-described Catholics are practical atheists, she should feel right at home.


27 posted on 06/20/2012 2:06:42 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (they have no god but caesar)
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To: the invisib1e hand
SInce probably half or so of self-described Catholics are practical atheists, she should feel right at home.

Ha, ha .. good attempt to slam catholics but your jabs missed the mark. Like so many other converts, she made her way into the Catholic Church through reasoning.

28 posted on 06/20/2012 2:24:06 PM PDT by NYer (Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
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To: NYer

If you were half as committed to the truth as you are proud, you’d be able to acknowledge the truth of the assertion (if not the actual ratio) without a knee-jerk reaction.


29 posted on 06/20/2012 5:10:11 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (they have no god but caesar)
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To: NYer
Lord our God, bless Thy servant Leah richly and stay with her on her journey.


30 posted on 06/20/2012 5:44:13 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: trailhkr1

“the others-the 98% of us just want to live our lives and it’s not worth the drama to bring it up to you...”

And yet, on a Catholic owned, staunchly pro-God website, on a thread specifically about an atheist who has converted to Christianity...you bring it up. Perhaps your heart seeks more than you realize?


31 posted on 06/21/2012 9:41:40 AM PDT by daisy mae for the usa
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To: the invisib1e hand
SInce probably half or so of self-described Catholics are practical atheists, she should feel right at home.

87.29 % of all statistics are made up on the spot.

32 posted on 06/21/2012 9:51:38 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Goode over evil.)
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To: Sirius Lee
Actuarily (ha!) in some of the more erudite, allegedly intellectual Catholic discussion circles, the topic has been addressed. I don't recall what the ratio was nor does it matter for the little joke to work. I mean, puhleeze, you'd have to be in the final stages of terminal denial to insist otherwise. And it's even in concord with prophecy, though there's no point in going there. Some people just won't be amused.

I should have simply said, "she ought to feel right at home" or something like that.

for someone to call it a "slap at Catholics" is childish.

33 posted on 06/21/2012 12:28:06 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (they have no god but caesar)
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