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‘A Darwin and a Catholic?’

May 21, 2014 by at 2:44 pm

“That I freely chose to be a Catholic after much thought and analysis, and wasn’t brainwashed into it, baffle my friends and family alike,” she writes. “I overheard one comment: ‘But she seemed like such an intelligent girl.’ So when people ask ‘A Darwin and a Catholic?’ what they’re saying is that I confound expectations.”

And more of her own words here.

h/t CTIL

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  1. Todd says
    May 21, 2014 at 5:11 pm

    So now she is a believer and her atheists companions are shocked because they thought she was smart. I always find it funny that to many atheist, I dare say most atheists, intelligence and belief are never found together.

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  2. Bernardo says
    May 27, 2014 at 6:57 am

    What I think is funny is that in their mutual admiration society, all it takes to be smart is to be a professed atheist.

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