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Eliot Rosewater

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116. Recovering catholic atheist here.

Tue Apr 11, 2017, 07:23 PM

Apr 2017

I know one christian, only one.

He was a Catholic monk and dont know what order, dead now for sure.

Lived in the mountains, sort of, complicated story. Never asked for money, worked for what he needed. Expressed the love purely as Jesus did, as far as I could tell.

One priest I knew was almost a christian, in that he could have been successful and big money guy but chose to serve Christ instead.

These two men are as close to Christ (who does not exist, at least not as a supernatural being) as I will ever get. I wish that Christ did exist, actually.

I admire Catholics and others who can live as close to the life as one can, like you probably do.

p.s. you cannot support trump and be a christian, impossible

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