My parents are becoming Mormon

[michaeldean]

You and I probably agree on this. But you keep saying things that don’t quite make sense to me.

Honoring your parents is a commandment and a theological order. It has nothing to do with being “of age” which would be different in many locations and historical times. Should she try to “evangelize” her parents and help them find the Truth. Yes! But only in so far as her place as their child is. There is no theology of the age of 18 being the time you treat your parents differently.

I’m a guy, haha, but this is exactly the dilemma I’m trying to figure out. On one hand I’m supposed to respect their views (and I doubt I could really accomplish much by arguing, they are almost as stubborn as I am) but I am also afraid that this is not a good thing for them, not just theologically, but also emotionally. My mother has a history of depression and my father borders on emotionally abusive, and the LDS church is strongly complementarian, so I fear for my mom’s wellbeing in that respect. But at the same time, I am in the middle of my own dark night and do not feel equipped to start a theological argument with them.
Thank you for your prayers and advice, everyone.

 

[Memaw]

As a Catholic I agree that our Church has some amazing miracles. But if you look at other cultures, they have miracles to the multitudes as well. There was a young buddhist monk who didn’t eat for years etc. Though the staff of Moses turned into a snake and ate the other snakes, the pharaoh had some “magic” of his own. And though we claim this as our own faith’s miracle, you should note that so do two other non Christian faiths. I’m sure to some zealots in the Islamic world. Two gigantic buildings being reduced to dust in minutes would be a public “miracle”

My point is that from our perspective those are compelling points and miracles. To a Mormon, Buddhist, Calvinist, Muslim, etc those are just unexplained events, dismissed with the same reasoning that you and I dismiss their faith’s miracles.

The dancing of the sun? Incorruptibles? Turin? Those are there and you and I believe them. To others, they are just as fanciful as martial artists dancing on treetops. Or having a powerful “chi ball”
Tell a mormon that St. Joseph of Cupertino flew, or that Padre Pio Bilocated, and they will not convert, and they will think you are as fanciful as we think becoming gods of your own planets is. For me, I believe them because of my faith. I have seen incorruptibles, I have seen Eucharistic miracles. If I were not Catholic, I would view them as I view Chris Angel “mindfreak” tricks.

The TRUTH is still the TRUTH even if nobody believes it!!, God Bless, Memaw