Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Dutch-American writer, activist and former politician. Once an advocate for the new atheist movement, she last year announced her conversion to Christianity.

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Ayaan's article announcing her conversion: unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian

- TIMESTAMPS

0:00 How is life different now?
8:11 Was Ayaan’s conversion just political?
15:17 What was the biggest mistake of New Atheism?
18:35 How does Ayaan respond to troubling Bible verses?
21:42 The therapeutic effect of Christianity
25:27 Responding to Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens
32:33 Are atheists or Christians more open-minded?
37:13 Can you choose to believe in God?
45:08 What strikes Ayaan from the Gospels?
47:00 Why Ayaan took a stance in the US election
50:48 Can a Christian support Donald Trump?
55:34 Immigration and Christianity
1:00:09 What would Christian Ayaan say to atheist Ayaan?

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