After reading your essay, I’m now a strong proponent of 2A rights for cats.
You might enjoy Robert Heinlein’s “Job: A Comedy of Justice” which has some pretty memorable depictions of hell. As one could infer from the title, it’s a story of a Job-like character enduring the devil’s trials... but Sci-Fi.
Funnily enough, early last year I went to a Catholic Church pretty regularly and started reading the Bible as well. Must be something in the water. I had a wee cry during prayer hour and a heartier one during confession, but ended up not taking to the whole thing.
The thing that resonated most with me was the emphasis on acknowledging that we have “fallen”, that we are broken and imperfect, that we can never be perfect but we should try anyway. That was a message I needed to hear for a whole lot of reasons and one that I wasn’t getting elsewhere.
Thanks for this ✨ there’s plenty about the Catholics I...struggle with, but having a location to go once a week and chat with the big man makes a difference.
And thanks for the rec! I’m not hip to most of Heinlein’s work and am always looking for inroads
After reading your essay, I’m now a strong proponent of 2A rights for cats.
You might enjoy Robert Heinlein’s “Job: A Comedy of Justice” which has some pretty memorable depictions of hell. As one could infer from the title, it’s a story of a Job-like character enduring the devil’s trials... but Sci-Fi.
Funnily enough, early last year I went to a Catholic Church pretty regularly and started reading the Bible as well. Must be something in the water. I had a wee cry during prayer hour and a heartier one during confession, but ended up not taking to the whole thing.
The thing that resonated most with me was the emphasis on acknowledging that we have “fallen”, that we are broken and imperfect, that we can never be perfect but we should try anyway. That was a message I needed to hear for a whole lot of reasons and one that I wasn’t getting elsewhere.
Thanks for this ✨ there’s plenty about the Catholics I...struggle with, but having a location to go once a week and chat with the big man makes a difference.
And thanks for the rec! I’m not hip to most of Heinlein’s work and am always looking for inroads
C2ATS
Wow, that’s good! Get that on bumper stickers stat!
Wooo! Congratulations on writing again! Looking forward to reading this over my morning coffee tomorrow.