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To: Claud

I was raised Catholic. It wasn’t until adulthood that I began to actually read the Bible beyond the snippets we’d get at Mass. One of the things I was surprised to learn was not in it is the phrase “God never gives you more than you can handle.”

That phrase isn’t in there because sometimes he does. I would never post as you did and basically say that “any true Catholic Christian” would just tough it out and not even consider the option. Life is a very different journey for each of us, and I would never presume to judge someone who was driven over the edge. You haven’t walked in his shoes or my shoes and I haven’t walked in yours.


34 posted on 01/31/2017 1:14:59 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: LostInBayport

I would never condemn him or judge him. That’s God’s job.

I am only offering it as a help to those who are suffering here and now and are losing hope. You can do something with your suffering, which already begins to make it bearable.

If you have objections to the Catholic approach, then read Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”. He essentially says the same thing....our suffering can be used for others.


39 posted on 01/31/2017 1:20:07 PM PST by Claud
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To: LostInBayport

Dennis Prager, of course, is not a Christian.


71 posted on 01/31/2017 2:09:49 PM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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