Worst reason EVER to convert....

[headnoises]

Just had to share....

A guy's priest, when pressed for an answer to a scientific question, basically said "well, we don't know, there's no binding teaching on this, but I guess it could be synthisized into evolution by X."

The guy offered this theory to  his protestant friends.

The teens laughted.

He converted.

0.o

If I actually converted for something

Comments

[kokorognosis]

It's amazing how easily so many of the faithful can be swayed.

[headnoises]

Sounds to me like he's bragging about having less faith than desire to be liked by other teenagers....

[kokorognosis]

Yeah.

But then, that's humanity for you. More so, that's teenagers for you.

[headnoises]

What scares me is that the guy is now a preacher in at least his thirties and still bragging about it....

[juliet_winters]

So he was converted by reason and not by faith and now spends quite a bit of time boasting of it?
Interesting. Not one of the finer moments.

I have several mature Protestant friends who have converted from Catholicism because they sought and found a more direct relationship Jesus than they had before. They sought. They found. Nobody's laughter made a speck of difference to them.

[headnoises]

By reason, I can respect.

By faith, I can respect.

By "I insisted on the personal opinion of one man, who, with many disclaimers that it was only a way that it might work, offered a theory, and other teenagers laughed when I told them what he said. So clearly their religion is better, and I still believe it when I am twice the age I was" I cannot respect.

Choosing your Church by what your heart says makes sense; choosing it by who has good arguments makes sense.

Choosing it because your friends laughed at a private theory of someone in your old faith is just silly... may as well choose by which has the prettier sign out front.