pope francis derangement is cringe but he’s still wrong here. atheists’ sense of morality is so warped that the exemplification of real virtue does not appear as virtue. this is why in the beatific vision the blessed’s knowledge of God’s essence draws forth his love of Him https://twitter.com/catholicsat/status/1253932509240459266

just from experience as a former atheist I can attest that while I admired Aristotelian-Thomistic ethics very much as an atheist I simply wouldn’t have converted if not for a transformation in my metaphysical worldview which took months of argument and persuasion