Check with the cardinal newman society or you will regret it.
Well, that’s the decision we all must make. Do we believe the claims that Jesus Christ made?
I do.
My conservative Catholic mother always warned me...Never trust a Jesuit.
Not surprised...You want to be secular, study human philosophy...You want to be a Christian, study the bible...
It however doesn’t have to be permanent...Could be some day God will rap his head up against a tree and he will allow a little light to shine in...
I think it would be funny, but they certainly wouldn’t publish it, of a student who wrote that when he entered school he was an atheist, but *despite* their efforts to reinforce his atheism, he became a Christian.
Perhaps go on a while about how he discovered atheists were weak and unhappy people, determined to inflict atheism on others precisely because they were wracked with doubts about their atheist beliefs. How they felt isolated and alone, leading useless and empty lives, and destined for nothingness.
Maybe conclude by saying how much his teachers must be disappointed in him. That instead of pursuing a meaningless existence, he now has the solace and succor of faith, and feels the warmth of love and purpose in his life.
Such a letter would bug the heck out of them.
LOL
You’ll be back ....
Riddle me this:
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“Everything has a mathematical formula as well it’s existence for place and time are mathematically predictable.
Where did that math come from???”
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I don't really have much hesitation to send my son, should he wind up there.
It's all in the preparation. My parents (and my wife's parents) had no idea that the culture had turned against them and their faith even by the 1950s (when our older siblings were very young). They thought that the culture would support them in raising their children Catholic. By the time they realized that they were losing their children to the culture wars, it was too late.
My wife and I saw what happened to our siblings. By the grace of God, we managed to hold onto our Catholic faith, cooperated with God to deepen it, and deepened our understanding of it. We prayed for more faith, and God never refused us.
When we had our own children, we were bound and determined that the most important part of our vocation as parents was to transmit the faith, bring our sons up in the faith, and equip them with everything they needed to keep the faith. We prayed a bunch, we homeschooled, and instead of merely giving them the intellectual and spiritual tools to defend their faith, we also taught them how to go on the offense for Jesus and His Gospel. My guys are Warriors for Jesus. Don't get in the way. It could be bloody.
My wife and I are blessed in that their intellectual faith is informed by real spiritual lives, alive by their relationship with God, Himself. Each of them has experienced the power and presence of God in their lives, and thus, they believe first-hand, so to speak, rather than merely on the witness of others.
But the best defense is a good offense. My older son is at a university that most would consider the belly of the Beast. He sought out the local Catholic community, joined the local Knights of Columbus council, got involved in serving others through the Knights and the local Catholic community, has found a competent confessor, and seemingly has far more effect on non-believers than they have on him.
Parents, you don't need to see your children go off to college to lose their faith. But you DO need to understand that transmitting the faith and giving your children all the moral, intellectual and SPIRITUAL gifts they need to sustain and grow their faith is the most important part of being a parent.
You cannot, of yourself, force the Holy Spirit to directly nourish them with a personal relationship with the Most Holy Trinity, but you can make sure that the Holy Spirit will have a clear field to do His thing. And he will. Every single time. Jesus promised.
And you have to start early. The earlier, the better. We started when we found out we were pregnant. We asked the Holy Spirit to come be with our children in the womb, and to never let them out of His care.
I know that it is God's will that we do NOT abandon the high places of our culture. It is NOT God's will that we cede institutions like Boston College to the enemy, but rather, that we do what we must to counter-invade and counter-attack, and make the enemy disgorge his ill-gotten gains. We must do battle and prepare our children for battle, as well.
For Catholic parents, finally, one really big piece of advice: pray the Rosary, teach your children to pray it, and pray it frequently with them.
Apparently he missed the forest for the trees.
All you really need to study is the salvation method of the two religions.
So facing a perfect Holy God, a God who knows no sin, which one do you thing will fly?
While I had doubts about the existence of God before entering college, I considered myself a Christian and checked off the Protestant Methodist box on my application. Still, I had some apprehension in attending Boston College—a religious, Jesuit, Catholic institution. So, it came much to my surprise that nearly as soon as I stepped on campus, my faith in Christianity and God started to wane
based on this I suspect this person was never a born again gave his life to Christ Christian but someone who’s parents were Christian and he went to church with them.
I have trouble buying this whole account. Who ever really believed that someone taught them "how to think" ? This is nothing but a formula, and the whole article is nothing but cliches.
He was headed that way when he got there. Conclusion: Either (a) his professors didn’t really challenge his beliefs all that much or (b) they did and he wasn’t paying attention. Either of which is a problem, but they’re strictly speaking both separate from BC actively turning him into an atheist.
>>Despite entering college as a Christian, two months from now I will graduate this Jesuit, Catholic school as an atheist. Ironically, the basis of that belief was developed in classes >>I was required to take based on Jesuit values and ideals —the education of the whole person through BC’s core curriculum. The Jesuits don’t teach students what to think. They teach them how to think. Above all else, that’s what college is for. And I’m grateful that I chose BC as the place to learn that.<<
Yep, classic Jesuit college education right there. Glad I was well versed in the Holy Scriptures before attending, Praise God! Made for some wild debates as the Profs and Jebbies defended the leftist secular atheist tripe. All this kid had to do was take the Liberation Theology course (which I was mislead into taking) and he would have left BC an atheist and a communist!
Yes avoid Jesuit universities they are NOT conservative and not Christian. One has to be strong in their beliefs to withstand their onslaught of liberalism.
Atheists are idiots.
The fool hath said in his heart, “There is no God.” He doesn’t know enough yet to look for more evidence. He is stumbling over things that lead children to believe in the existance of God. Where did I come from? There had to be a starting point. Something cannot come from nothing. Intricate designs call for a thoughtful Creator. He is stumbling over obvious truths and swallowing convoluted lies...a dangerous thing to do. The cost: His eternal soul. Better to take a second look.
We read a number of proofs for the existence of God, and as any good intro philosophy class allows, we examined each side of the argument. After both class discussions and my own thinking, I realized I sided more with arguments against God. I recall writing an essay disputing St. Thomas Aquinas’ five proofs of existencePeter Kreeft is on the faculty at BC, and I've heard him say that the philosophy department is very good. OTOH, BC is also known as "barely Catholic," so the other departments may not be as good.
Anyway, it appears that the student has made his choice, a choice not uncommon among young people. But most grow out of it.
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc. What religious crusade were they on?
What a load! HE made himself an atheist. He blames ANYONE or ANYTHING else? I went to U.C. Berkeley and did not become an atheist. WHAT a cop-out.
Student is delusional, weak and stupid.
