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3 Things to Say to a Grieving Non-Christian
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| February 18, 2015
| Megan Hill
Posted on 02/18/2015 6:48:34 AM PST by Gamecock
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posted on
02/18/2015 6:48:34 AM PST
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Gamecock
To: Gamecock
How about, “Get over it, they’re dead.”
To: Gamecock
Thanks for posting this. I have to admit, I hadn’t thought of that situation.
To: Gamecock
Don’t say “well, they’re in a better place now”. You don’t know that they are, and they might not be. Better to just be sorry for their loss.
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posted on
02/18/2015 7:06:13 AM PST
by
showme_the_Glory
((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
To: Gamecock
What words can we offer the agnostic friend who just watched her atheist mom succumb to cancer?"If you think she was suffering then, you ain't seen nothing yet." ?
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02/18/2015 7:08:04 AM PST
by
Ken H
(What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
To: Ancient Man
How about, Get over it, theyre dead.Pretty close to what I was thinking. Grieving is a selfish act. The dead do not care, they're dead after all. The grieving shouldn't make it all about them. So, "get over it, and get on with living."
To: ConservativeInPA
That’s only to encourage yet another mode of selfishness. Why push someone out of the frying pan into the fire?
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posted on
02/18/2015 7:20:25 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Ken H
"If you think she was suffering then, you ain't seen nothing yet."I know that implied the /sarc tag...
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posted on
02/18/2015 7:20:36 AM PST
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
To: Ken H
Has God never approached anyone “on the way out” with a final and best offer... I cannot say that, I do not have a scriptural basis for it. It is up to each soul to refuse or accept God qua Savior (which is actually another way of saying the name of Jesus — in Aramaic this is Yeshua, or the Savior).
Statements like yours, lacking a context, only appear to depict a cruel and capricious God, rather than a God that respects our choices deeply enough to let us damn ourselves rather than having a puppet salvation shoved down our throat.
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posted on
02/18/2015 7:25:05 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Ancient Man
"How about, Get over it, theyre dead. Profound AND compassionate. /S
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posted on
02/18/2015 7:37:27 AM PST
by
CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
To: HiTech RedNeck
Statements like yours, lacking a context, only appear to depict a cruel and capricious God, rather than a God that respects our choices deeply enough to let us damn ourselves rather than having a puppet salvation shoved down our throat. I wonder why billions of Asians who have already lived and died over the centuries chose to burn forever. That is the fate in store for the vast, vast majority of them who were non-Christian, according to Scripture.
Why do you think they made such a choice?
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02/18/2015 7:44:19 AM PST
by
Ken H
(What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
To: Gamecock
Do these three things really help the person who is a non-believer?
I don’t think so.
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posted on
02/18/2015 7:50:02 AM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Gamecock
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posted on
02/18/2015 7:50:40 AM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Salvation
What's the going rate for getting a dead relative out of Hell these days?
Is there a volume discount?
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02/18/2015 7:56:48 AM PST
by
Ken H
(What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
To: ConservativeInPA; Ancient Man
How about, “Get over it, they’re dead.”
Fetal alcohol syndrome people and crack babies have very little problems with grieving over dead family members. It’s just another passing incident that has no meaning to them. Unless the food bowl doesn’t show up on time, then they react.
To: Salvation
Acknowledging grief is important.
Nothing you say can help a person in grief, but since you brought it up, what would you say to an atheist who lost a loved one?
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posted on
02/18/2015 7:59:15 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Crunch is a Naval line officer.)
To: Salvation
Again. The paradigm is non-Christian. I doubt they want to attend a Catholic self help program.
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posted on
02/18/2015 8:00:24 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Crunch is a Naval line officer.)
To: Gamecock
I would tell them I am sorry for their loss.
And leave it at that.
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posted on
02/18/2015 8:02:22 AM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Gamecock
BTW, the Beginning Experience weekend is focused on the grief, not the religion. There are teams from other denominations — which, of course, won’t help an atheist.
But the help is there whether it ends with a Mass or a service of some kind.
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posted on
02/18/2015 8:04:00 AM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Salvation
Which is sort of covered in talking point 1.
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posted on
02/18/2015 8:06:54 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Crunch is a Naval line officer.)
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