Do non-believers ever try to convert you? A fun story!

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Sometimes, I am the lone Catholic among my friends. So one of me non-believer friends sent me an article repudiating the crucifixion as necessary for salvation. Just as a caveat, we do have a “smart aleck” relationship.

Here’s my response …

I read one sentence and I stopped. I’m familiar with this POV. I think everyone who believes this way should meet in a church with no crosses or crucifixes. Prune lots of the Bible. Prune the hymns. Toss out the early Church fathers and 2,000 years of Church [history]. Never listen to Handel’s “Messiah.” Hmm. Lots of Bach has to go. After all that, they could order coffee from Starbucks. If it’s the Will of God.

Here are the last words in the message:

I really am a Nicene Creed kinda gal.

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Has a non-believer ever try to convert you?
 
I haven’t really had anyone try to convert me back since converting. I got called by my old pastor recently but forgot to call him back amidst some of the craziness with holidays and moving. 😳 He might have wanted to talk me out of it, but I don’t know how much he knows about my conversion.

That said, I did have a few discussions prior to converting. I talked with one Protestant friend as I was learning about some of the weirder (to a Protestant) Catholic beliefs. He pushed back as expected, but it didn’t deter me. My parents also expressed some shock, but they haven’t pushed back hard even when I mentioned that I try to pray the Rosary daily. (They’re both former Catholics so would know that that means a lot of Hail Marys.)
 
No direct attempts to lure me away from the faith, but I remember one time in a subway station in Paris when another person who was waiting wore a leather jacket upon which was inscribed (in English) I AM NOT A SLAVE TO A GOD THAT DOES NOT EXIST

And I thought, Cool ! Neither am I!
 
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A lady did approach me in the produce section of Walmart once and started asking me all kinds of questions. She asked if I was aware that there’s ongoing revelation today, or if I knew that there was a “female” part to God, and other very…interesting things. I was a little annoyed because I had just finished shopping and really wanted to pay and leave. I had seen this lady just moments before talk quietly to another woman…I think she must have been “in training” to approach people and talk about their faith. I just thanked her and told her I was very happy where I was. She asked, “are you sure?” and told me the name of her church, which I now forget.

By then, I just wanted to get out of there. lol
 
I come from an Evangelical family in the U.S. heartland. I waited until I moved to New Jersey to to be received into the Catholic Church. One relative who lives in this area said to me: “You … of all people … a Catholic?” It was very dramatic at the time. I look back now and find it funny.
 
Yep. Not sure why, given that, I, as a Christian have a divine command to evangelise. What command do atheists and agnostics have? Who are their gods? I’m not worried about it, I know my faith relatively well.
 
Interestingly you should mention to that, because that reminds me of lyrics to a rock song that I know, and I was pondering over the absurdity of that statement earlier, and I thought the exact something you did!
 
I’ve had non believers accuse me of being mad for believing in God.

Not funny at all.

Father Solanus Casey honestly thought that people who didn’t believe in God we’re mad.

Not sure about that, all I know is calling people mad one way or the other is probably not a very convincing argument. And actually VERY offensive.
 
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Don’t they all try to convert you? One friend is trying to convert my mother back to Protestantism and me, a cradle Catholic, to it. Not working with either of us.
 
@lilypadrees: Many people try to convert me. One coworker whose religion I will not mention relentlessly tried to convert me. He was a nice man. And because I was involved in religion coverage at my paper, I couldn’t tell him to buzz off. I just politely listened in silence. It got really old.
 
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