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Greetings Brothers & Sisters,
Some months back A lady I work with at the bakery was going through my notebook to get customer invoices and noticed in the margin I had jotted “The Lord Made Me Hard to Handle”. After getting the invoices she inquired to me if I were a Christian. I chuckled at the question and responded “I’m one of the original Christians deary”. She had this perplexed look on her face, and I added,“I’m Catholic”. So sometime after I run into her and her husband at the A&W and they invite me to watch this video series that “scientifically” explains the origians of the universe going back 6000 years. Well this I had to see being the inquisitive sort and all. So I got my invitation and showed up making the commitment of keeping an open mind and not revealing too much of my reactionary thoughts until I took in the whole series. Well 2 months later of meeting every Wednesday night (except Ash Wednesday) and watching this young Earth…the Lord works in mysterious ways – for if it had not been for them I wouldn’t have been exposed to all this. And of course they are armed with their KJVs and then their was the Chick Tracts, and the writings of Dr John R. Rice, and Trail of Blood by J.M Carroll and my inquistive nature led me to here among other sources and I can only thank them for strengthening my faith in the Church. But I’m sure they must be able to rope in weaker, unstable, ignorant people from time to time with what I saw was misrepresentation, no scientific thoroughness, and accepting literal scripture as inturpretation… and I can almost hear in their minds when I say anything that may sound contratictory “WHORE OF BABYLON!” But I don’t fault them for that, as I said, I can only thank these people, and love them all the more for giving me the exercise of research, and even my preist gave me a copy of the Catechism, and it’s been so awesome. But now I wanna back out, and I’m sure they want to keep me around (perhaps I add a challenge to them) but I don’t want their wasted effort trying to “save” me. I have to assure them I’m saved, I would like to leave on a positive note their church (He actually is running it out of his home) A group of 6 or 7 of them… I’ve managed to bring along a Luthern friend and a Pentecostal friend, but even they aren’t showing up anymore to see the conclusion of the series. I dunno. I don’t want to insult them. They seem so sure of their salvation I just didn’t have the heart to break it to them about Faith, Hope and most important Charity. Is there an eloquant way to part ways, convey my thoughts on the whole experience, my gratitude, etc etc… without upsetting their self-righteous stance? Hmmm…guess not.
But I have to give the Church credit for starting Communism, Islam, Nazism, The Illuminati, The Ku Klux Klan, and the pope is behind crack Jesuit commando teams armed with nija style crucifixes killing in the name of Christ, atc etc… I didn’t think Our Church was that diverse.
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PS
Any help would be appreciated if you know these type of people and how you handled them.
Some months back A lady I work with at the bakery was going through my notebook to get customer invoices and noticed in the margin I had jotted “The Lord Made Me Hard to Handle”. After getting the invoices she inquired to me if I were a Christian. I chuckled at the question and responded “I’m one of the original Christians deary”. She had this perplexed look on her face, and I added,“I’m Catholic”. So sometime after I run into her and her husband at the A&W and they invite me to watch this video series that “scientifically” explains the origians of the universe going back 6000 years. Well this I had to see being the inquisitive sort and all. So I got my invitation and showed up making the commitment of keeping an open mind and not revealing too much of my reactionary thoughts until I took in the whole series. Well 2 months later of meeting every Wednesday night (except Ash Wednesday) and watching this young Earth…the Lord works in mysterious ways – for if it had not been for them I wouldn’t have been exposed to all this. And of course they are armed with their KJVs and then their was the Chick Tracts, and the writings of Dr John R. Rice, and Trail of Blood by J.M Carroll and my inquistive nature led me to here among other sources and I can only thank them for strengthening my faith in the Church. But I’m sure they must be able to rope in weaker, unstable, ignorant people from time to time with what I saw was misrepresentation, no scientific thoroughness, and accepting literal scripture as inturpretation… and I can almost hear in their minds when I say anything that may sound contratictory “WHORE OF BABYLON!” But I don’t fault them for that, as I said, I can only thank these people, and love them all the more for giving me the exercise of research, and even my preist gave me a copy of the Catechism, and it’s been so awesome. But now I wanna back out, and I’m sure they want to keep me around (perhaps I add a challenge to them) but I don’t want their wasted effort trying to “save” me. I have to assure them I’m saved, I would like to leave on a positive note their church (He actually is running it out of his home) A group of 6 or 7 of them… I’ve managed to bring along a Luthern friend and a Pentecostal friend, but even they aren’t showing up anymore to see the conclusion of the series. I dunno. I don’t want to insult them. They seem so sure of their salvation I just didn’t have the heart to break it to them about Faith, Hope and most important Charity. Is there an eloquant way to part ways, convey my thoughts on the whole experience, my gratitude, etc etc… without upsetting their self-righteous stance? Hmmm…guess not.
But I have to give the Church credit for starting Communism, Islam, Nazism, The Illuminati, The Ku Klux Klan, and the pope is behind crack Jesuit commando teams armed with nija style crucifixes killing in the name of Christ, atc etc… I didn’t think Our Church was that diverse.
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PS
Any help would be appreciated if you know these type of people and how you handled them.
