Last November, the writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali published an essay titled “Why I am now a Christian”—an inversion of Bertrand Russell’s 1927 lecture “Why I am not a Christian.” A peculiar aspect of Hirsi Ali’s conversion—at least as she described it in her essay—is that it’s more of a political statement than a religious affirmation. She said very little about the doctrines of Christianity. She didn’t mention the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. While she briefly discussed her personal spiritual struggles, the piece was almost entirely focused on what she views as the social and political benefits of religion.
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