Have you heard a good homily on Hell lately?

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You’ve never heard an atheist rant now have you? Personally, I don’t really care if you scare an atheist with hell. I just don’t believe it’s going to work unless you prove it to him/her. Though, given the close-minded stubbornness of such people (hypocritical when they’re the ones accusing Christians of such), the only 100% effective way you could prove it is by showing it in their faces.

Words don’t work for these people. Physical reality does. Otherwise, Chick Tracts would’ve worked.

I do tell them about St. Faustina and her visit to Hell…

i don’t know if they believe it or not because usually i distribute this info anonymously…

but anyone with half a brain is going to read that and think, “even if this is hard to believe, or even virtually impossible to believe: What if i am wrong???”

 

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Good ones! And try Sensus Traditionis below too, a 3 parter on Hell. Very good.

Some people respond positively to sermons on Hell, some don’t – though in fact in the latter case it’s not always clear. They might reject it outright at first, but then have them haunt it afterwards and realize they need to do something finally.

Because the objective reality they probably -are- in REAL trouble ahead.

i dont’ know why virtually everyone would not respond positvely to Hell… since it is spoken of by Christ in many places i nthe Bible…

i would think the only ones not wanting to hear it… shutting their ears to it… are people who don’t love truth… Even if a person doesn’t think Hell is real, he will at least be open minded to it… if he is at all interested in waht happens after death, and most people are…

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

I do tell them about St. Faustina and her visit to Hell…

i don’t know if they believe it or not because usually i distribute this info anonymously…

but anyone with half a brain is going to read that and think, “even if this is hard to believe, or even virtually impossible to believe: What if i am wrong???”

Hmm, not sure if that’s going to convince people but that sure has piqued my interest. Got a link?

Regardless, I still think we should start looking for more powerful ways to prove the devil’s existence if we’re ever to try preaching about hell again.

 

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Hmm, not sure if that’s going to convince people but that sure has piqued my interest. Got a link?

Regardless, I still think we should start looking for more powerful ways to prove the devil’s existence if we’re ever to try preaching about hell again.

google St Faustina… Diary 741 (i think)…

i don’t need more powerful ways to prove his existence… I’ve seen the evil men do, which originates with him… True, people don’t have to listen to him… but where do pepole get ideas to do this or that evil? They get them from him…

there is supernatural evil in the world… very few would deny that… I have been sitting @ Mass (for example) and all of the sudden, out of nowhere… literally out of nowhere i get some really off the wall unholy thought… No one call tell me that that is not the devil because, for one… often it is a thought i would never, on my own, have come up with… & its one that is totally unrelated to what’s going on in my life or whatever… He hates the Catholic Church and he attacks Catholics more than others… usually… because He knows that we have power over him… (rosary/Mass/confession…Real Presence…)

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

there is supernatural evil in the world… very few would deny that…

Unfortunately, these few have happened to have been getting louder voices and more attention recently. (coughDawkinscoughHitchens**coughRational Response Squadcough*)