In what must surely come close to the modern-day equivalent of having committed career suicide, journalist Joe Hildebrand has converted to Roman Catholicism. And to make it even worse, his confirmation was “not as a child like almost all others but as a fully sentient, self-aware and informed adult.” The reason is, according to Hildebrand, because:

Son of God or not, there is simply no human being in all of human history who has had a bigger or more lasting impact on the human race.