RE: Mother-in-law
March 15, 2012 at 10:03 am
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2012 at 10:06 am by Doubting Thomas.)
I do understand her concern about hell, but I'm not going to try to change my beliefs to make her feel better. I really think she's the one who needs to talk to the priest about her fear of me being in hell. That's her belief, not mine.
Frankly, there's nothing the priest can do or say to make me believe again, short of having Jesus and God stop by so I can talk to them. But I don't think that's going to happen, so the point of me talking to him is useless. I'm just frustrated with myself that I ever agreed to go talk to him in the first place.
No, I don't know where she got the idea for the rapture. It surprised me when she said it because I'd never heard her talk about it before. But I don't know if she really meant "tribulation" as opposed to the idea of flying up to heaven before all the bad end-of-the-world stuff happens.
My wife is still Catholic and would like for me to be religious again, but she doesn't push the issue. She knows that I've made up my mind, and I told her many times that I would believe in God if I had actual evidence that he exists. I just can't accept things on blind faith. She occasionally asks me to go to church with her, but I politely refuse. I will go on Easter or Christmas, but that's it.
Frankly, there's nothing the priest can do or say to make me believe again, short of having Jesus and God stop by so I can talk to them. But I don't think that's going to happen, so the point of me talking to him is useless. I'm just frustrated with myself that I ever agreed to go talk to him in the first place.
No, I don't know where she got the idea for the rapture. It surprised me when she said it because I'd never heard her talk about it before. But I don't know if she really meant "tribulation" as opposed to the idea of flying up to heaven before all the bad end-of-the-world stuff happens.
My wife is still Catholic and would like for me to be religious again, but she doesn't push the issue. She knows that I've made up my mind, and I told her many times that I would believe in God if I had actual evidence that he exists. I just can't accept things on blind faith. She occasionally asks me to go to church with her, but I politely refuse. I will go on Easter or Christmas, but that's it.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
