04-24-2007, 03:44 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-SwamyG+Apr 24 2007, 08:24 AM-->QUOTE(SwamyG @ Apr 24 2007, 08:24 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->You have a padre waiting near the emergency room. A patient with a stopped heart is brought in with distraught relatives. The patient is pulled away into a private area for doctors to jump on him. The relatives are pulled away to a convenient area/chapel to where the padre says a prayer.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
A similar f*** thing happened right before my eyes. A man was dying in the ICU (not because of cardiac reasons). A Christian friend had magically brought a nun to the wailing mother. The nun was telling the mother that J would be able to save him. Because of the crying and tense situation I did not catch all the words, but the words J and save stuck in my mind. For many years I thought the nun was instilling some confidence and giving a hope of some miracle that would save the man. I thought hey nothing wrong, she is there to console and comfort just like everybody else. After a few years, when I knew more about Christianity I realized the word "save" has an altogether sickening meaning.
Looks like such incidents are far more common in India.
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This is a supreme piskological trick played on people at a time when they are most vulnerable because anything you do other than agreeing completely with the padre and cooperating would dub you as an ungrateful and insensitive person who wants his father or other relative dead.
This "evangelical" act is the mother of all "Have you stopped beating your wife"/Catch 22 situations. It requires a great deal of strength and conviction to tell a padre to keep off in such a situation.
But sorry - all this is a digression from the topic of the thread
A similar f*** thing happened right before my eyes. A man was dying in the ICU (not because of cardiac reasons). A Christian friend had magically brought a nun to the wailing mother. The nun was telling the mother that J would be able to save him. Because of the crying and tense situation I did not catch all the words, but the words J and save stuck in my mind. For many years I thought the nun was instilling some confidence and giving a hope of some miracle that would save the man. I thought hey nothing wrong, she is there to console and comfort just like everybody else. After a few years, when I knew more about Christianity I realized the word "save" has an altogether sickening meaning.
Looks like such incidents are far more common in India.
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This is a supreme piskological trick played on people at a time when they are most vulnerable because anything you do other than agreeing completely with the padre and cooperating would dub you as an ungrateful and insensitive person who wants his father or other relative dead.
This "evangelical" act is the mother of all "Have you stopped beating your wife"/Catch 22 situations. It requires a great deal of strength and conviction to tell a padre to keep off in such a situation.
But sorry - all this is a digression from the topic of the thread