Yeah, cool story, except - not really. Who knows why the opportunistic sleaze-ball in the video really converted, or if he converted at all, as opposed to making the whole sh*t up, as as attention-grab.
I've known people - often quite intelligent and educated people - who suddenly became religious. They all have stories and arguments, attempting to both rationalize and romanticize their conversion and their new outlook on life and reality. Maybe they believe those stories to be true, I don't know, but pretty much all of them happened to discover religion right after traumatic events in their lives - like loss of a close family member, substance addiction, life-threatening physical or mental illness and such. Go figure.
I've known people - often quite intelligent and educated people - who suddenly became religious. They all have stories and arguments, attempting to both rationalize and romanticize their conversion and their new outlook on life and reality. Maybe they believe those stories to be true, I don't know, but pretty much all of them happened to discover religion right after traumatic events in their lives - like loss of a close family member, substance addiction, life-threatening physical or mental illness and such. Go figure.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
