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Do you ever get into debates or arguments with a friend or family member over your faith? It has happened to me soo many times. At least four times with friends (multiple witht he same person) and currently in one with a family member (though it has died down a lot) and am trying to get two of my friends to calm down cuz they are arguing about beliefs and such. I feel like no one else gets that. Does that ever happen to you?
 
I marked other, because almost everyone I know avaids the subject of religion like the plague. If the subject comes up, they manage to change it very quickly–they’re just not interested.
 
I have some heated debates with a friend of mine that claims to be Catholic even though she hasn’t set foot in a church buliding in over 2 years. I’ve asked her repeatedly not to express her personal opinion about the church on-air (she’s also a DJ at a different radio station in my hometown), but she’s trying to be the next Howard Stern & thinks she’ll make a name for herself being a “shock-jock”. She’s an ultra-liberal 21 year old that thinks she knows everything about everything & I think I upset her a lot because I don’t agree with her MTV outlook on life.

I was recently banned from a guitar forum for “preaching religion” & not being a tolerant pushover. 😃
 
Well I want to get into discussions with my friends and family about faith so I can speak the Truth and hopefully get someone to come along with me to Mass. I’m content with waiting for them to bring up the topic of Faith so I can speak it.
Dj Roy Albert:
I was recently banned from a guitar forum for “preaching religion” & not being a tolerant pushover. 😃
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Good for you for getting banned and standing up for your religion with one stone! 👍
 
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Aureole:
Well I want to get into discussions with my friends and family about faith so I can speak the Truth and hopefully get someone to come along with me to Mass. I’m content with waiting for them to bring up the topic of Faith so I can speak it.

Good for you for getting banned and standing up for your religion with one stone! 👍
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It seemed that the site was run by atheists. I told them the truth & explained my religious beliefs & I was chatised for it. I spoke out against a lot of the evils in this world & I was called a homophobe & a anti-abortion radical wanting to force my religion on “womens rights”, so I was banned for not accepting their points of view. Silly me for having a backbone. 😛
 
Dj Roy Albert:
It seemed that the site was run by atheists. I told them the truth & explained my religious beliefs & I was chatised for it. I spoke out against a lot of the evils in this world & I was called a homophobe & a anti-abortion radical wanting to force my religion on “womens rights”, so I was banned for not accepting their points of view. Silly me for having a backbone. 😛
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This got me to smile after feeling terrible. Thank you for standing up and speaking against those evils, if only more were like you… This is really something to cheer up a person like me.
 
Dj Roy Albert:
It seemed that the site was run by atheists. I told them the truth & explained my religious beliefs & I was chatised for it. I spoke out against a lot of the evils in this world & I was called a homophobe & a anti-abortion radical wanting to force my religion on “womens rights”, so I was banned for not accepting their points of view. Silly me for having a backbone. 😛
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Good job.
 
Its not that I “get into debates” but that debates or arguments come to me. I could say “Hi” to members of my family and I’ll get a lecture on the dangers of marijuana use.

I remember one holiday when I was with my family (all Catholic), they were discussing the funeral homily giving by the pastor of my parent’s church. The occasion was the suicide death of a well know friend by “Dr. Death.” (The year was the late 90’s) They were praising the homily when I said I thought the pastor should have made mention of the error of suicide. My mother and sister jumped on me for condemning this fellow to hell. :confused: I spent the next hour and a half trying to defend the Church’s teaching that suicide is wrong, while they were accusing me of being judgmental. It was a wonderful holiday. 😦

As far as evangelizing goes, I use to talk to coworkers (Protestant) about Catholicism. :cool: We would talk for hours. I had to cut that short because we wouldn’t get any work done. 👍
 
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Fidelis:
I marked other, because almost everyone I know avaids the subject of religion like the plague. If the subject comes up, they manage to change it very quickly–they’re just not interested.
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Same here, never comes up or the subject is quickly changed. What an odd duck I am–my favorite topics are religion and politics! 😦
 
my dad’s an agnostic, as far as I can tell, and my mom hasn’t practiced the Catholicism she was raised with for years. I used to get into debates with them which quickly degenerated into arguments, but don’t anymore. It was too upsetting for all of us. The saddest part was they told me not to talk about this stuff with my younger sister - who’s also agnostic or maybe even an atheist by now. I don’t mind so much anymore though. Years ago I was really into apologetics and debating stuff - I spent a whole summer talking about Catholicism with a Pentecostal at work, but had little success converting him as he rejected rational thought for the most part. But now I’ve grown to hate confrontation more and more - I don’t know quite why - but the thought of debating like I used to makes me queasy, I just don’t want to do it anymore. In person, that is, over the internet is still fun.
 
*Yes, *I have shared my faith with 3 of my best friends, one divorced her husband, another has had affairs with married men for years and another is gay. All three I have not heard from in 3 years.

Talk about being persecuted for the sake of Christ, and be willing to forsake all others for the sake of Christ—, friend, this can be a reality for all of us sooner or later. Are we ready and willing to suffer this?

“In this world you will have trouble, but take heart, for I have overcome the world”…John 16:33
 
My best friend and I will occasionally get into a theological discussion. She is Pentacostal and I am a Catholic revert. It used to be that she was skeptical about just about everything Catholic, and her questions really made me look so much deeper into what the Church teaches and why. (So much so that I credit her, among a very small group of people, for putting me back on the path to Catholicism). Well, over the years something must have stuck with her, because she told me not too long ago that she can understand the Catholic teachings and beliefs on just about all the topics we’ve discussed! The one thing that gives her the most trouble, of course, is Marian teaching. I tell her that she is really a Catholic at heart, she just doesn’t know it yet. I love debating with her, but I think right now it is best to let things be. I recently bought Scott and Kimberly Hahn’s book Rome, Sweet Home, and I found her reading it. So anyway, for now, maybe it is best not to debate anymore, and just let her do some searching on her own.
As far as other friends or relatives, I will discuss (never be argumentative, though) whenever the subject comes up. I don’t bring it up, but I will defend the Church when need be.
Have a great day!
Judy
 
Once in a while but the friends that feel the need to play the devils advocates as they call themselves drive me crazy.
 
To be Catholic is to have to defend the faith to some degree or other. That’s just the way it goes. Like the above poster I too credit an attack by a vehement A/C guy (who was mos definately NOT a friend) with the spur that ultimately led me home to the sacraments again after over 30 years away. Sometimes it’s a drag but I really don’t mind cos the Irish in me loves to debate and won’t back down, especially about our most holy faith.
 
My friend is Catholic so I ask her questions a lot because it seems as though sometimes she just believes things because they are doctrine so they are automatically right. Our friendship has not suffered because of it.
 
One of my very best friends is an observant Jew. For almost 15 years we have been able to discuss our respective religious involvements without debate or any effort to convert, persuade or admonish. I sometimes wonder if our respective prayers in private for each other’s conversion cancel themselves out?!😉
 
Sometimes, but It has never ruined our friendship.
I have some wonderful friends who have left the Church…I try to keep open comunications by agreeing to disagree.
 
My hubby and I used to get in to heated debates with my in-laws quite frequently since my husband is a convert. However, we have pretty much had to call a truce because it made for a very hateful environment. I am the evil one because I converted hubby to the whore of babylon. Relationships have never been the same. Family gatherings are hard because no one knows what to talk about.
 
Island Oak:
One of my very best friends is an observant Jew. For almost 15 years we have been able to discuss our respective religious involvements without debate or any effort to convert, persuade or admonish. I sometimes wonder if our respective prayers in private for each other’s conversion cancel themselves out?!😉
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I think observant Catholics have more in common with observant Jews than we have in common with Fundamentalist Christians or with tepid believers or any kind. The Rabbi where I work (Orthodox) is one of my best buddies on campus. We call him “Father” – and he loves it.
 
You have no idea…

I married a Southern Baptist from a strong Baptist family. Needless to say I was less than popular at the get togethers while we were dating. There are still serious prejudices by the Baptist congregations in Richmond VA against Catholics. I enjoyed our exchanges and often set off my future inlaws with some of the things I said. After we were married my mother-in-law spent the next few years introducing me as her daughter’s friend. She did not know of my wife’s pledge to raise our children Catholic. For the first 3 years my mother in law prayed for “conversion in our house”. God granted her prayer and my wife converted. We have 2 children being raised in the faith and a mother-in-law praying for our salvation.
 
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