On: Whose Weil? Simone, Patron Saint of Everyone

[moralestapia]

She converted to Christianity later in her life. The reasons why she did it would probably turn a lot of people towards Christ as well.

I don't think she converted to Christianity out of spite of Judaism, but rather out of love for Christ. In several of her writings she refers to Jesus as the absolute role model a human could ever strive to be.

She did write a couple things that were critical about Judaism, but she also wrote a lot of things that were critical about almost everything that came across her life, being a philosopher.

I wouldn't label her as anti-semitic, though, mainly because one of the main motives behind her whole life (not just her writings, and this is what sets her apart from other philosophers), is to exercise love for all human beings.

(I have read a lot about her but wouldn't consider myself an expert on Weil yet, so this is mostly my intuition about her.)

[RunningDroid → moralestapia]

To add to this it should be noted that some consider Christianity inherently antisemitic, either because they believe all Christians blame all Jews for Christ's crucifixion, or because Christians believe the New Testament presents a new divine contract that replaces the old contract (Judaism).

[zupatol → moralestapia]

According to wikipedia, it's not certain she converted to christianity. She was raised as an agnostic, so was only jewish "ethnically".

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The Christianity bit is a technicality. She was never baptized so that's why one could argue she's "no true Christian".

Despite that, in many of her writings she explicitly and openly expresses her alignment with Christianity.