You could always dig him up and castrate him, if that would make you feel any better.
Many folks on this site are at the age where the music of the 60s and 70s shaped us or formed us, or at least we really loved it a lot, as we too were struggling with our own sins, not always knowing the best direction to take in a myriad of [what were] bad offerings made to us.
So when you show profound disrespect to David Bowie, you are sort of dissing a lot of other people in the same breath.
And it doesn’t really matter what type of person he “was” anyway; it only matters which direction he is taking right now, and if enough people pray for his soul [this is where Catholics come in], the quicker David can see [and sing and play for] the heavens above.
I appreciate your post. I was baptized & married in the Episcopalian Church, but it was a very liberal church experience & I would be a liar if I said I go to church. I don’t. I do try ( & often fail miserably) to do good, to help out people & animals & to live a decent life. I live in a glass house, no two ways about it. But I always thought that a true Christian did not judge, they left that to God. That is why so many of these posts are just wrong.
The ironic thing is that I’m not even a big Bowie fan. I like some of his music (his soundtrack to “Cat People” w/ Nastassja Kinski I remember loving. I have loved iman forever.) I can think of some political figures that I would not weep over should they pass. I will feel sadness for their loved ones & I will refrain from disparaging them. They deserve grace as much as people I care about. I guess if this is “Christianity,” it’s a bastardized version of what I thought it was.
Kind of hard to do that now, since he was cremated.
David Bowie sealed his own fate and no amount of praying can change where he is now.
Hebrews 9:27 King James Version (KJV)
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Discussing what Bowie professed to believe doesn’t have anything at all to do with you or your “feels.”
My friend you need Biblical REALITY not vain traditions... (Matt. 15:7-9).
Read what you wrote and see the folly in it... but it could just be you are being a scoffer and agitator.. however....
Catholics are good people but do not want simple Bible truth and doctrine on salvation issues as I personally know. As an ex Catholic who personally chose to choose Almighty God’s Word and Truth over vain traditions.. I speak from authority on the matter.
Here are a few Bible verses for you to look up since you are a devote Catholic... Matt. 15:7-9, Heb. 9:27, John 3:36, Rom. 10:2-4
I hope you believe the Bible???