[extropy-chat] John C. Wright finds god

[Trend Ologist]

Bookish? the 'typical product of our culture' leans
more towards local yokel ...they can read sports
statistics, romance novels, etc. Women are actively
encouraged to play dumb because it supposedly makes
them more feminine. 

  
> John C. Wright:
> Introverted, bookish, rude, irreligious,
> un-athletic, smart and 
> smart-mouthed: a typical product of popular culture
> in America.
> 
> Greg West:
> When you say you were irreligious does this mean you
> were actively 
> skeptical or simply indifferent and amoral?
> 
> John C. Wright:
> My moral character has always been sterling. I mean
> that I was skeptical. 
> For many years I had been an atheist, and a
> vehement, argumentative, 
> proselytizing atheist at that. I saw no other
> possible option for belief 
> for a logical thinker. My recent conversion to
> Christianity was a miracle, 
> prompted by a supernatural revelation, which has
> satisfied my skepticism in 
> this area, and saved my life. To my surprise, I find
> that I am still a 
> perfectly logical thinker. I hold that it is
> insufficient to argue that 
> since human reasoning discovers no evidence of a
> Divine Being, such a being 
> necessarily does not exist. The proper conclusion is
> that humans, without 
> the assistance and intervention of a divine being,
> cannot come to knowledge 
> of Him: a conclusion I think even atheists will
> allow.
> 
> Greg West:
> When did this conversion take place?
> 
> John C. Wright:
> I had a heart attack and was near death. It happened
> this November just 
> past, late in 2003 AD.
> 
> My conversion happened long after I wrote THE GOLDEN
> AGE, LAST GUARDIAN OF 
> EVERNESS, or ORPHANS OF CHAOS. It was also after I
> wrote the short story 
> LAST OF ALL SUNS, a story which prompted one editor
> to ask whether I was a 
> Christian: I was a vehement anti-Christian at the
> time of that writing, 
> but, like all good authors, I wrote the story
> according to its own internal 
> logic, and logic demanded an ending more cheerful
> and supernatural than the 
> world view of a Stoic or a natural philosopher would
> allow.
> 
> Greg West:
> What was the nature of this supernatural revelation?
> 
> John C. Wright:
> That is a strange and private matter. Let us pretend
> that I was visited by 
> three ghosts, like Scrooge, and, like him, returned
> from the travail a 
> better man.
> 
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> 
> Take care--it could happen to *you*.
> 
> Damien Broderick
> 
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