Born Again Christianity

Aged 14 I did something I am ashamed of to this day, I got into a long conversation with a Jehovah Witness gentleman at the front door of our home, I used reason and logic to prove how wrong he was by introducing him to idea's and theological arguments that had never occurred to him, heavy duty science and philosophy but I think he had a problem with this being delivered from a lad who was in essence a child.

He left his faith and reports from locals who knew him said he went downhill quite fast, this was very close to my conversations with him, those conversations happened over a several evenings and his personal issues surfaced within a month or so.

I have lived with the guilt that I broke that man's framework, albeit innocently as an intellectually interested child, however what I did was wrong, just the same way that the born again's are wrong and anyone who forcibly preaches their one true belief is wrong.

Science has practical answers to the 'how' questions but has little to say on 'why', preachers have all the answers to why but most of them are clearly preaching from a self interest viewpoint, 'why' is ultimately the truly hard question and people should be allowed to find their own 'why' but not through any application of force either physical or argumentative.

Sorry to get so serious and I'm not getting at you in any way John, your post just brought out these memories in me and I felt I should post, I know you were being lighthearted.

Father Jack

Indeed it is a great response when asked anyting about the Catholic faith

Yeah I was playing through a few of those already, I have all of the series but the disks are in Manila just now

Never quite had the guts to play them all to the whole family.

Yeah Howerd typo should have been 'conversations', I will fix it