From the recent obituary of Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete:
At a 2008 event in New York, (Christopher) Hitchens remarked that Christianity, with its tenets about the afterlife, was worse than the North Korean dictatorship because “you can’t get out of it by dying.” Monsignor Albacete, who said he was engaged to be married when he decided to become a priest, compared the discovery of faith with another type of life-altering encounter.
“You can’t help it,” he said. “You’ve fallen in love.”
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ReplyDeleteFrom the recent obituary of Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete:
ReplyDeleteAt a 2008 event in New York, (Christopher) Hitchens remarked that Christianity, with its tenets about the afterlife, was worse than the North Korean dictatorship because “you can’t get out of it by dying.” Monsignor Albacete, who said he was engaged to be married when he decided to become a priest, compared the discovery of faith with another type of life-altering encounter.
“You can’t help it,” he said. “You’ve fallen in love.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/monsignor-lorenzo-albacete-catholic-theologian-dies-at-73/2014/11/05/c1a000f6-6501-11e4-836c-83bc4f26eb67_story.html