Co-Founder of Wikipedia Shares His Testimony

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Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, shares his testimony on his blog. Very fascinating, and encouraging. He opens it with this:

It is finally time for me to confess and explain, fully and publicly, that I am a Christian. Followers of this blog have probably guessed this, but it is past time to share my testimony properly. I am called to “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”1 One of the most effective ways to do so is to tell your conversion story. So, here is mine.

I’m a thankful Brian Mattson shared this on his most recent substack.

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Also, since it is Valentine’s Day, here is a fitting quote from Sanger’s testimony:

I should add at this point that two life events changed my understanding of ethics, and this mattered later for my conversion. The first was my marriage, in 2001, and the second was my first child, in 2006. After these events I certainly could no longer endorse Ayn Rand’s (in retrospect) ridiculous notion that we can somehow justify our moral obligations toward other people in terms of our own self-interest, no matter how “enlightened.” Indeed, if I am willing to die for my wife and children, would I be acting in my own self-interest at all? I had always believed that morality had something to do with caring for other people. But, in caring for them, is it my interest that I care for, or theirs? I say this because, again, Rand made an impression on me between the ages of 16 and 26, or so, and her unbelief in God confirmed me in mine. But I was now firmly rejecting her ethics, which struck me as a clear lapse of judgment. Awareness of that lapse later made it easier to reject her atheism as well.

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Thanks for this, Matt. The text above makes me wish this butch chick had been given a chapter in Johnson’s “Intellectuals.” I too had my Rand period, but soon came to see she was only slightly not-as-bad as Christopher Hitchens. Sadly, I believe she continues to be a good representative of much of MAGAISM and, historically, Hillsdale’s “good-without-godism.” Her morals were quite similar to Hillsdale’s former prez, George Roche.

Rand would be a hero in the manosphere today. Praise God for Sanger’s delivery to Jesus Christ. Love,

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I finally managed to take some time to read his testimony, and it was very encouraging. Thanks for sharing it.

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