[My daughter says she is an atheist?]
There's a very interesting movie out there which you can get at a Catholic bookstore. I think it's called "Science Tests Faith." I watched it a few months ago and it talks about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. This movie shook me to the core. It was quite overwhelming. Maybe you can get her to watch it. I know it might take more than a movie but keep trying. Get a gallon of water and get it blessed by a priest and add it to whatever your family drinks. Receive Communion and offer it up for her and her conversion.
My sister too has left the church."...pray to a God that may or may not exist!" That's what my sister says. Even though it's tough I'm not giving up and you shouldn't either. I pray God will open your daughter's eyes too. Stay strong, she'll come back. Keep praying.
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"Get a gallon of water and get it blessed by a priest and add it to whatever your family drinks."
Isn't this basically the same idea as poisoning? At the very least it's slipping a mickey for the Lord! I mean, this person honestly believes that holy water has power, it has effects, and is recommending dosing people with the stuff.
Holy water is not intended for consumption and may be dangerous to consume. It's intended to be sprinkled on things, not to be ingested, so it's not necessary to keep it potable. That said drinking water blessed by a priest remains drinking water, so assuming that's what you're doing its fine (from a hygiene perspective, from a moral perspective it's kinda creepy).
Beyond that, coming on this strong is likely counter productive since you're just going to annoy the hell out of your daughter. It doesn't seem ill intentioned though. And they aren't talking about her being demon possessed or anything. This is actually pretty tame by FSTDT standards.
Even though it's tough I'm not giving up and you shouldn't either. I pray God will open your daughter's eyes too. Stay strong, she'll come back. Keep praying.
I've had people doing that for me for years. Those that actually tell me that they'll pray for me, I just let them know their wasting their breath/time/energy. I gave up on the Christian religion over 20 years ago.
Fundie? Not sure on that, but the OP needs to realize people have their own rights to choose their own religion.
Seriously, even if your daughter or sister converts to Satanism (and what's wrong with that, anyway?), my only advice to you would be LEAVE THEM BE.
It's quite possible that being disgusted by the notion of consuming human flesh and blood, even symbolically, was a major step on the way to your daughter becoming an atheist. Human sacrifice is the hallmark of barbarism for every other culture, but Christians think it's just peachy that a god killed his son for their benefit.
There's a very interesting movie out there which you can get at a Catholic bookstore. I think it's called "Science Tests Faith." I watched it a few months ago and it talks about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.
Really? What's the molecular weight of Jesus? What about His chemical formula?
You should create a more exciting approach to promote that movie. Mention lots of explosions and kinky sex. Or if it's more of a musical, use the line "Fifty Beautiful Girls ... 40 Glamorous Costumes." Give it the old pizazz, starryheart.
Even the Catholic Church had to admit that the universe is not only expanding but accelerating . They also admit that Evolution is fact.
The Church of England are the first to admit that much of the Bible - including Genesis - is purely fable & metaphor: as in not to be takem literally .
If these bastions of mainstream Christianity admit that science is correct, then what does that say about you starryfart, unless you turn Sedevacantist : because that's what the oh so infallible Pope Francis thinks too.
You're not gonna like what he's said about Atheists & Heaven very recently, so you might as well go the anti -Pope way.
'a gallon of water'? Stick your head in it. The only 'conversion' that would be of any possible use to your daughter is Any Video Converter, the software I use: bloody good it is, too. Of all the bloody good your 'prayer' will do, or serve any practical purpose for her .
Get a gallon of water and get it blessed by a priest and add it to whatever your family drinks.
The Catholic church would consider that heresy. Holy water is not magic. The blessing of the water (to which salt is added in the process) only means that the water is set aside for ritual purposes, making it less mundane. It doesn't have any special power.
You also can't dedicate or "offer up" your communion to someone else. This is the kind of medieval black magic thinking the "modern" church opposes.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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