Dappled Things: “God is dead,” proclaimed Nietzsche through his mouthpiece Zarathustra. But if he is dead, I should not expect to hear him speaking. And yet, in the quiet hours of the morning, when my head screams from last night’s binger and my body rails against my malformed will, I hear a soft voice from inside me, but that is not me, speaking. A voice that reminds me of the grime that crusts my life, but which also offers hope that I can be made clean.
This, in a nutshell, sums up New York Post editor Sohrab Ahmari’s spiritual odyssey from nominal Muslim Iranian youth, to secularized American teenager, to Nietzsche devotee, to college Trotskyite, to atheist conservative, to believer in a non-denominational God, to baptism in the Roman Catholic Church. Ahmari’s conversion memoir From Fire, by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith may seem remarkable for how unlikely it is on paper. But if God is not dead, should we not expect him to act in powerful and mysterious ways, and through unlikely people? Full story is here.
