{"id":13121,"date":"2012-10-04T17:02:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T21:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13121"},"modified":"2012-10-04T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T21:03:21","slug":"former-president-of-a-secular-free-thought-society-becomes-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/10\/former-president-of-a-secular-free-thought-society-becomes-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Former President of a Secular Free Thought Society becomes Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Imagine society\u2019s collective shock if Hillary Clinton were to join the National Rifle Association, if members of the Westboro Baptist Church were discovered frolicking at a gay bar or if Quentin Tarantino were to announce plans to make a Justin Bieber documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Horn\u2019s friends were hit with a shock wave of that magnitude when Horn, then an ardent atheist, announced his resignation as president of the Secular Free Thought Society, an ASU club known for its skepticism of religion. Horn had committed the ultimate taboo and sealed his self-imposed excommunication with one act: he decided to become a Catholic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An interesting conversion story reported in a magazine for\u00a0Arizona State University and is well worth reading. \u00a0The opening paragraphs are a bit over the top, but the actual story of his life and conversion is more\u00a0straight-forward. \u00a0His description of what happened after he had read the Litany of the Sacred Heart is also something I can understand.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was actually kind of annoyed that it happened, and scared \u2013 not comforted in the least,\u201d Horn says. \u201cI didn\u2019t want it, I didn\u2019t think it was possible. It just happens, and you come out of it realizing that this obliges you to change your life and the entire course you thought it was taking immediately.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigpulpit.com\/2012\/10\/03\/the-four-properties-of-a-glorified-resurrected-human-body\/\" target=\"_blank\">Just read the whole thing<\/a>\u00a0 via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/president-of-atheist-group-resigns-and-converts-to-catholicism-eence-and-th?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NCRegisterDailyBlog+National+Catholic+Register#When:2012-10-4\" target=\"_blank\">Tito Edwards.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine society\u2019s collective shock if Hillary Clinton were to join the National Rifle Association, if members of the Westboro Baptist Church were discovered frolicking at a gay bar or if&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13124,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions\/13124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}