{"id":13982,"date":"2012-06-28T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholiconnection.com\/2012\/06\/prominent-atheist-blogger-converts.html"},"modified":"2012-06-28T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T01:15:00","slug":"prominent-atheist-blogger-converts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/prominent-atheist-blogger-converts\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Atheist Blogger Converts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The famous atheist blogger, Leah Libresco, announced <\/span>on <\/span>her blog at Patheos<\/a> last week that she has joined RCIA cla<\/span>sses to become Catholic. Her post entitled “This is my last post for the Patheos Atheist Portal<\/a>” sent a shockwave through the online secular community and prompted various angry articles written in response. It starts out:<\/p>\n

For several years, a lot of my friends have been telling me I had an inconsistent and unsustainable philosophy.  \u201dA virtue ethicist atheist whose transhumanism seems to be rooted in dualism?  Who won\u2019t shut up about <\/span>moral lapses as wounds to the soul<\/a>and keeps trying to convince us it\u2019s <\/span>better to be sinned against than sinning<\/a>?  Who has started talking about <\/span>mortifying her pride<\/a> and keeps pulling out Lewis and Chesterton quotes?  C\u2019mon, convert already.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And what played a major part? Yep you guessed it. Or maybe you didn't: McIntyre's virtue ethics<\/a> which is rooted in Thomistic\/Aristotelian teleology. <\/p>\n

I hold to my thesis. If Aristotle were better understood (he or his terminology is not evaluated beyond empirical\/ logical positivist criterion) by students….then so many wouldn't be so logically lead to agnosticism, which would be the logical conclusion in a world without teleology<\/a>. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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