“Atheism has failed to answer a simple question: what is the meaning and purpose of life? she said, asserting that “the void left by the withdrawal of the Church” in the modern world “has simply been filled by a jumble of irrational quasi-religious dogmas.”
Hirsi Ali said in the essay that there is “no need to seek a new age concoction of drugs and mindfulness” to deal with current crises: “Christianity has it all.”
Another reason she made the change, she says, is “global”: The writer said in the essay that “Western civilization is under threat” on several fronts, including Russia and China, “l ‘global Islamism’ and ‘woke ideology’.
“We strive to repel these threats with modern, secular tools: military, economic, diplomatic and technological efforts to defeat, bribe, persuade, appease or surveil,” she wrote. “And yet, with each new wave of conflict, we lose ground. »
Hirsi Ali said the only way to successfully “fight” these threats is to answer the question “What unites us?”
The “only credible answer, I believe, lies in our desire to preserve the heritage of the Judeo-Christian tradition,” she said; this heritage includes an “elaborate set of ideas and institutions designed to safeguard human life, liberty and dignity.”
