thread: 2006-09-08 : Salvation, damnation, justification, a la Sydney
On 2006-09-12, Sydney Freedberg wrote:
Vincent: It's not personal non-existence that bothers me; it's the non-existence of everything. If God exists, well, at least He keeps existing.
Twila: Thanks for joining in. For what it's worth, you have not "failed as a parent"—not any more than all of us fail, which we all do in small but significant ways—because your child cannot share your intellectual belief. What matters more is passing on an emotional habit of basic human decency and a sense of wonder. And if my fellow parishioners' experience is any guide, she has not stopping thinking about this, and as her children grow and ask her questions, she may come back to the church.
So, to both of you, I guess my moral is: With God, never assume the story is over.
