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Breakpoint

The Courage to Change One's Mind

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Former politician and activist converts from atheist to Christian.

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0:00.0

With a woman a look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

0:04.6

In a recent interview with atheist Richard Dawkins, a Somali-born activist writer and former politician

0:09.9

Ian Hersy Ali, admitted she's changed her mind about faith. Having spent her first 20 years

0:16.3

in war-torn Somalia, Ali has spent her life criticizing Islam and advocating for the rights of Muslim

0:21.3

women. She then became an atheist, but now has become open to faith.

0:25.3

And when asked by Dawkins whether she thought what pastors preached about Jesus

0:28.8

being the son of God was nonsense, here's what she said, quote, I think you're coming at this from a place that there is nothing,

0:35.2

and what has happened to me is I think I've accepted there is something.

0:39.0

When you accept that there's something, there's a powerful entity for me, the God that turned me around, I think what the

0:44.5

vicar is saying no longer sounds nonsensical. It makes a great deal of sense.

0:49.6

Well hopefully Ali's courage to change her mind will point others to do the same.

0:54.0

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

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