Let there be no compulsion in religion.
Still one of the exemplary tenets that I have always recalled from school way back when and something I've always tried to serve best. Though our generally prejudiced social media occasionally tries to villify missionary schools by claiming they have a hand in miraculously evangelizing students there, I can tell you that's all utterly ridiculous bs since in all my years there, I never saw any such thing.
Unless someone out there can convince me that merely strolling by a cross on a wall can be tantamount to a miraculous conversion.
Religion should be something utterly individual - and personal faith should be something nearly unshakeable otherwise why hold on to it in the first place? State-sanctioned religious conversion aside - something I personally find preposterous, I never can quite understand it when someone I personally know undergoes a conversion just to marry someone else.
If they have been admirably drawn to the new religion because of their love, then I would heartily salute that particular conversion.
But most times, the one being converted is doing it purely because.
Which I find almost sinful.
Paul : So after all the months of religious classes, you have finally come to believe?
Friend : No.
Paul : You haven't seen any light?
Friend : No.
Paul : You're still converting?
Friend : Yes.
Paul : Good God.
Let's not kid ourselves about the entire romanticization of making that ultimate sacrifice for luuuurve. Has anyone wondered why any religion would want a staunch non-believer to even enter their halls to take up vows? Not to mention why anyone would force their loved one, someone they purportedly love above all else, to be a disciple of a religion they don't actually believe in.
Always remember this. The book is holy only to the devout followers because of their intense faith - but to anyone else who doesn't believe, it's not very much different from the entirely fictional Greek myth about their own gods.
Still one of the exemplary tenets that I have always recalled from school way back when and something I've always tried to serve best. Though our generally prejudiced social media occasionally tries to villify missionary schools by claiming they have a hand in miraculously evangelizing students there, I can tell you that's all utterly ridiculous bs since in all my years there, I never saw any such thing.
Unless someone out there can convince me that merely strolling by a cross on a wall can be tantamount to a miraculous conversion.
Religion should be something utterly individual - and personal faith should be something nearly unshakeable otherwise why hold on to it in the first place? State-sanctioned religious conversion aside - something I personally find preposterous, I never can quite understand it when someone I personally know undergoes a conversion just to marry someone else.
If they have been admirably drawn to the new religion because of their love, then I would heartily salute that particular conversion.
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| Not to mention a baptism would be less a holy sacrament and more an unwelcome dunk in cold water. |
But most times, the one being converted is doing it purely because.
Which I find almost sinful.
Paul : So after all the months of religious classes, you have finally come to believe?
Friend : No.
Paul : You haven't seen any light?
Friend : No.
Paul : You're still converting?
Friend : Yes.
Paul : Good God.
Let's not kid ourselves about the entire romanticization of making that ultimate sacrifice for luuuurve. Has anyone wondered why any religion would want a staunch non-believer to even enter their halls to take up vows? Not to mention why anyone would force their loved one, someone they purportedly love above all else, to be a disciple of a religion they don't actually believe in.
Always remember this. The book is holy only to the devout followers because of their intense faith - but to anyone else who doesn't believe, it's not very much different from the entirely fictional Greek myth about their own gods.
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Is the same lady that you were telling me about? RCIA due to impending marriage?
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