Advice needed - to engage or not to bother?

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Hello my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ,

I have a conundrum - My nephew in law and his friends are posting derogatory (and frankly terrible) things about religion in general, and also the occasional comment regarding Catholicism, on facebook. They are all young, just about to leave high school. My question is, is it worth butting into their conversation to defend the faith, or is it even worth the effort? Some of the things they are saying are quite horrible, and I have doubts whether my comments would help.

I would appreciate your prayerful advice on what to do in these sorts of situations.

God bless
 
AndyT_81 said:
Hello my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ,

I have a conundrum - My nephew in law and his friends are posting derogatory (and frankly terrible) things about religion in general, and also the occasional comment regarding Catholicism, on facebook. They are all young, just about to leave high school. My question is, is it worth butting into their conversation to defend the faith, or is it even worth the effort? Some of the things they are saying are quite horrible, and I have doubts whether my comments would help.

I would appreciate your prayerful advice on what to do in these sorts of situations.

God bless
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If you wish to POSSIBLY make an impact I wouldn’t suggest doing this in a public forum like FaceBook where all of his friends will be witness to it. The odds that he will submit to the truth in front of his friends is small. The best way to “handle” this (if that is what you decide to do) is to have a one-on-one in-person conversation. When they don’t have an audience of their peers, teens have a better chance at actually having a civil discussion. If you do this in front of their friends, they are much more likely to feel that they “have to” act the fool.

If you decide to forgo the event, simply find one of his posts on your wall and go to the right upper corner of the post and click on the drop-down arrow and then on Ignore Posts From <nephew in-law’s name>. This will allow you to keep him in your “friends” and write/receive private messages but will ceases posting all the garbage he spews forth to look cool in front of his buds; thus allowing your blood pressure to return to normal. 😉
 
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AndyT_81 said:
Hello my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ,

I have a conundrum - My nephew in law and his friends are posting derogatory (and frankly terrible) things about religion in general, and also the occasional comment regarding Catholicism, on facebook. They are all young, just about to leave high school. My question is, is it worth butting into their conversation to defend the faith, or is it even worth the effort? Some of the things they are saying are quite horrible, and I have doubts whether my comments would help.

I would appreciate your prayerful advice on what to do in these sorts of situations.

God bless
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Dont fight teenagers. They are crazy. They do not know what they are talking about and they are absolutely irresponsible. That is why most deaths by accident occur with teens. They might writ about potatoes or shoes or seawater, it would be crazy. It is about religion, it is crazy.

You do whatever you want. But the only thing I would do was to make questions not senteces affirmative. If you Think on an affirmative sentence reword it and put it into interrogative.

Like: You know that with religious matters you should not make fun? Do you knaow that what you said XXXX is refuted by YYYY, as seen here: BBBBBB.com/FFF.php?

It is very interesting your reflection on God (it was awful!!!) but do you know the argument of St Anselm about the same subect? My personal opinion, very personal, maybe I am wrong, but this opinion is very good…

and so on
 
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Dont fight teenagers. They are crazy. They do not know what they are talking about and they are absolutely irresponsible. That is why most deaths by accident occur with teens. They might writ about potatoes or shoes or seawater, it would be crazy. It is about religion, it is crazy.

You do whatever you want. But the only thing I would do was to make questions not senteces affirmative. If you Think on an affirmative sentence reword it and put it into interrogative.

Like: You know that with religious matters you should not make fun? Do you knaow that what you said XXXX is refuted by YYYY, as seen here: BBBBBB.com/FFF.php?

It is very interesting your reflection on God (it was awful!!!) but do you know the argument of St Anselm about the same subect? My personal opinion, very personal, maybe I am wrong, but this opinion is very good…

and so on
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Yeah, many teens are probably “crazy” and “don’t know what they are talking about”, but not all are like that.

To the OP, I would either just ignore his posts, or talk to his parents. I would not confront him over Facebook.
 
AndyT_81 said:
Hello my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ,

I have a conundrum - My nephew in law and his friends are posting derogatory (and frankly terrible) things about religion in general, and also the occasional comment regarding Catholicism, on facebook. They are all young, just about to leave high school. My question is, is it worth butting into their conversation to defend the faith, or is it even worth the effort? Some of the things they are saying are quite horrible, and I have doubts whether my comments would help.

I would appreciate your prayerful advice on what to do in these sorts of situations.

God bless
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It is not worth the trouble to correct a fool, but you should file a complaint with Facebook - via email recommend to other Catholics to file a complaint about their pages too.
 
Thank you all for the very sound advice. I agree - a debate on facebook is probably going to end poorly. Unfortunately the parenting situation is very problematic (single parent, pagan/wiccan). That is not to say there isn’t plenty of love in his family, but it is certainly sub-optimal. It’s a shame, he’s a good kid who is very intelligent but unfortunately he has gotten himself caught up in the far left of politics and marxism - hence the anti-religious streak

Please pray for him and this inadequate servant
 
anp1215 said:
Yeah, many teens are probably “crazy” and “don’t know what they are talking about”, but not all are like that.

To the OP, I would either just ignore his posts, or talk to his parents. I would not confront him over Facebook.
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Talk to his parents? I dont know. Many of them are at a loss. One parent of a friedn of my son told me something and whispered: “But do not tell my son!”
Ignore? Neither also…He should educate.
I agree on not confronting. But I have confronted my niecebadly on Facebook about a photo she put there (I always confront teenagers but I do not advise so: they hate to see elder people on Facebook), but gave plenty of praise when she put a lot of beautiful pictures there and a sentence: to my lovely niece XXXX".
I think Jesus said something about beiing as smart as a fox and as simple as a dove. It was in another context but It think it would apply nicely to tens…

The word is education and adults must educate. simple? No. But you must do, you do mistakes recognize them, do good things…that’s life…
 
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