Hello. My best friend is Catholic and she has been telling me worrying things lately. Non-Christian things, basically. I'm so sorry if this is the wrong forum or place to post this in, but I have been looking for somewhere to post about this and came across this website.
Anywho!
It started off with little things, you know? The first comment I remember was when she said she believes in jinxing. We had been goofing around and saying we always jinxed things...but then I realized she truly believes that if she does something, the world will somehow magically make a jinx. I had so much in my mind, but I didn't say too much about it.
However, a few months later she mentioned that her mother took her to a "special" doctor whom I do not think was Christian, but was spiritual and crazy about telling my friend to take these special "magic" herbs that would heal her. (It sounded like she was a wanna-be witch, and when I expressed that that seems really weird, my friend implied that she believes in it.) This is sort of similar to the jinx thing.
I could ignore these two things - I could even ignore that she thinks walking under ladders will give you bad luck and such. My friend might just be a little superstitious and doesn't understand the contradiction that has with her Catholic faith.
Unfortunately, she is taking a philosophy class this semester in college and...she's changed...
Obviously, philosophy in itself is not bad or unChristian. However, she is creeping me out. She showed me a video about how small we all are in this big universe - which I knew of already and is not concerning in of itself - but then made a comment about how none of us actually matter. As a Christian, is it not God's word that every single person is important?
It might seem superficial, but it's the way she said it. As if she was fascinated and totally believed in it - like we're nothing.
She hangs onto every word she learns from the philosophers she is studying. She is particularly into existentialism...A little too into it? Saying that we're all here for no reason and there's no point in actually living. She loves it. It's like her obsession.
The things that made me shocked today was when she said she believes full-heartedly in the Big Bang - without question.
I'm sure I'm worrying a little too much, and by my examples, it doesn't seem like a big deal. But I wish I could have accurately quoted her word-by-word from my memory alone...I probably sound a little too obsessed lol...It's just so scary how into existentialism she is, and the healing "powers" and the superstitions, and the fact that she didn't use to be into all of this philosophy stuff. I'm just worried...She doesn't really talk about God anymore and I don't have the guts to ask her if she's still Catholic... :/
I hope some people can help me, even if it's just to let me know I'm worrying about nothing!
Anywho!
It started off with little things, you know? The first comment I remember was when she said she believes in jinxing. We had been goofing around and saying we always jinxed things...but then I realized she truly believes that if she does something, the world will somehow magically make a jinx. I had so much in my mind, but I didn't say too much about it.
However, a few months later she mentioned that her mother took her to a "special" doctor whom I do not think was Christian, but was spiritual and crazy about telling my friend to take these special "magic" herbs that would heal her. (It sounded like she was a wanna-be witch, and when I expressed that that seems really weird, my friend implied that she believes in it.) This is sort of similar to the jinx thing.
I could ignore these two things - I could even ignore that she thinks walking under ladders will give you bad luck and such. My friend might just be a little superstitious and doesn't understand the contradiction that has with her Catholic faith.
Unfortunately, she is taking a philosophy class this semester in college and...she's changed...
Obviously, philosophy in itself is not bad or unChristian. However, she is creeping me out. She showed me a video about how small we all are in this big universe - which I knew of already and is not concerning in of itself - but then made a comment about how none of us actually matter. As a Christian, is it not God's word that every single person is important?
It might seem superficial, but it's the way she said it. As if she was fascinated and totally believed in it - like we're nothing.
She hangs onto every word she learns from the philosophers she is studying. She is particularly into existentialism...A little too into it? Saying that we're all here for no reason and there's no point in actually living. She loves it. It's like her obsession.
The things that made me shocked today was when she said she believes full-heartedly in the Big Bang - without question.
I'm sure I'm worrying a little too much, and by my examples, it doesn't seem like a big deal. But I wish I could have accurately quoted her word-by-word from my memory alone...I probably sound a little too obsessed lol...It's just so scary how into existentialism she is, and the healing "powers" and the superstitions, and the fact that she didn't use to be into all of this philosophy stuff. I'm just worried...She doesn't really talk about God anymore and I don't have the guts to ask her if she's still Catholic... :/
I hope some people can help me, even if it's just to let me know I'm worrying about nothing!