"I’ve found this is the best way to approach upsetting topics with my daughters: to remind them that anything they’re scared of, and anything they’ll suffer, Christ has already suffered for them, will suffer alongside them, and will utterly destroy in the end. You’re worried about death? Great news: it’s already been cast into the pit where it belongs."
This is fascinating to me, because while I wasn't raised Christian and am not now, the closest thing to a religious experience I can remember having was as a small child (6?) coming to what felt like the full understanding of this concept (plus the original sin idea), and feeling utter and complete despair, that a world where that was true would be too awful to fully comprehend, and meaningless. So, uh, your mileage may vary, I guess? my response is certainly the rarer one though, and you likely need to start out kinda atheistic to get there.
"I’ve found this is the best way to approach upsetting topics with my daughters: to remind them that anything they’re scared of, and anything they’ll suffer, Christ has already suffered for them, will suffer alongside them, and will utterly destroy in the end. You’re worried about death? Great news: it’s already been cast into the pit where it belongs."
This is fascinating to me, because while I wasn't raised Christian and am not now, the closest thing to a religious experience I can remember having was as a small child (6?) coming to what felt like the full understanding of this concept (plus the original sin idea), and feeling utter and complete despair, that a world where that was true would be too awful to fully comprehend, and meaningless. So, uh, your mileage may vary, I guess? my response is certainly the rarer one though, and you likely need to start out kinda atheistic to get there.
"The answer... [is] the God of the universe absorbing all [evil things] into his own flesh and bone and exploding them from the inside."
But that's how the Matrix trilogy ended, and it was awful. And they made a fourth one, anyway, so... checkmate, Christianity.