Two Worlds CLASH - Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs Richard Dawkins

Glen Scrivener reacts to Ayaan Hirsi Ali debating with Richard Dawkins for Dissident Dialogues, hosted by Freddie Sayers. Watch the debate:

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[jimmiferfreddette]

Many people in their 30s, 40s and 50s are coming to the exact realization she had. After being an atheist for almost 20 years, anxiety, depression, therapists, psychologist, spiritualism, newageism Buddhism, Etc. I found the answer was right under my nose where I didn’t want to look. The church I grew up in. This is going to be more common story in the coming years.

[biddiemutter]

Lord, please protect and bless this brave young Christian

[markwoodson]

The further I get in my faith the more I see how much God (or how little I) is responsible for all of it. Even being able to recognize my sinful nature is a grace I'm learning to thank God for every time.

[AliciatheCho]

Great take! Ayaan perfectly articulated why I left agnosticism for Christianity. I had a freaky series of events that I had me finally accepted was the Holy Spirit calling me

[kbeetles]

Dawkins comes across as the more narrow-minded with unmanageable vitriolic feelings towards Christianity. The way he dismisses all that Ayaan shared about her experiences concerning her faith - making herself vulnerable, is pretty brutish. There we go, humanist ethics!

[livewire]

Im 36 going to 37 in august. I believed in Jesus and God when I was younger. This sunday im going back to Church again for the first time in years. Ayaan is a role model for me.

[ClauGutierrezY]

I know we're Christians and we're supposed to be graceful and loving, but I have to say, what a sad miserable human Dawkins is, coming back to that kind of disrespectful come back to such an intimate and vulnerable answer. Alex is spot on here. I do pray for Dawkins to step up from cultural Christianity to Christianity proper one day though.

[johnslagboom]

Wonderful! Ayaan Hirsi testimony brought tears to my eyes. Your commentary is by far the best exposition and summary I have heard on the Gospel applied to the Christian verse Atheist debate. Very powerful, will be sending it to all my family! One of the positive effects of the Post-Modern dystopia we increasingly find ourselves in is that the Church is finally taking the gloves off the Gospel! It can take on all comers with the overwhelming power of Love!!!

[anthonycostello]

I had a genuine vision and audible experience of Jesus Christ at my conversion. Why God would grace me with such an amazing pleasure, I do not know. But nothing has compared since, even other similar experiences, that followed intermittently the ensuing years. It was truly an experience of the "more than real" God: the real Reality and the true Truth.

Also, this occurred when I was at my mental, emotional and physical peak (I had just qualified for the US Army Special Forces course), so Christ doesn't encounter only those who are "in the pits" or on the down and out. He also knocks the pride out of those who think they are at the top. That's my story at least.

[stefanlouw]

Clean, clear and concise analysis, brilliant.

[BrandonCSullivan]

What a beautiful commentary on an incredible conversation! Thank you for your work.

[TheJasonbass]

Thanks for this brother! And thank you Richard Dawkins for proving the presuppositionalist apologists right! He committed to a world view and not even evidence will shift him. Just like David Hume before him.

[lkae]

So what if atheism doesn't offer anything? "Hi, I'm an atheist and I have nothing to offer this crumbling society. Would you like to go on a date?" 😐😐 Ladies, never forget this point.

[stephwalsh]

Yup. I stuck to the end and coz you asked I gave a like as I realised ... I listened thoughtfully thru. Thanks

[jeanbrown]

I enjoyed this video so well. It brought back memories to me about 2 years ago. It was a very difficult time in my life, lots of self hurt and much more. I read a little book describing Jesus. I prayed and had so much peace. It’s a long story. But Jesus was and still is real

[Possums-hk]

Brilliantly done, Glen, as I’ve come to expect from you.

[iamalphalim]

44:58
I remember Rick Warren saying it’s more logical to believe that dead tissue can reanimate rather than that inorganic material can spontaneously come alive

[monthc]

I think in this conversation, Dawkins is at last being presented with the kind of evidence for God that he couldn't possibly conceive of. It's not a disembodied voice, an arrangement of stars, or some other miraculous sensory phenomenon. It's the transformation of a fellow human that is completely shattering his categories. It's the unbelievable arc of a friend's life.

You can tell he's grappling with something huge as he's forced to walk back many of the unkind things he's said about faith, while still desperately clinging to "it's nonsense."

Well it is nonsense. The wisdom of God is foolishness to the prideful intellect of the likes of Dawkins. Yet, the holy spirit is there, pulling at his heart still, proving Ayaan's account correct.

[hazelliddle]

I came to your analysis after having watched the debate between AHA and RD. You have done a wonderful job (as always) of it by not only breaking it down but also pointing out the contradictory comments RD has made in the past. Thank you!

[angelaapostolou]

Love the Emmaus road analogy. That’s me, too. Thank you Glen