For me it is very hard, to remain calm, with peace in me, and to behave with love, when I hear things from people, who are theologically so uneducated but think they know, what about they speak. I just met my nearest friends, who came back from the funeral service from their mother. He, C., got into raptures about the protestant pastor (an old friend of their family), who did this farewell service, as it was called. He said: He is a deaply really pious man with a very free theological spirit. When he celebrates the Communion he not uses the term \\"The body of Christ ...\\", but a more historical (correct) term... An old tradition ... It became apparent, that it was a term that denied the bodily presence of Christ in this meal. I felt, how I became aggressive. He than began to speak about the church, that always tried to frighten people. Fortunately she, then, I., steered our talk in another direction. A little later he told me, that I. gave the undertaker a coin to put in the urn with the ashes of their mother. For the ferryman ... And she is a member of the (protest.)church council, also a member of the church synod. She then said, she would never had told me that, because I would consider this pagan. Then they said: Do you know? maybe, there is a ferryman. maybe also a ferryman to heaven? They said this with tong in cheek, but ment it seriously.
We then agreed, to close this conversation.
In such situations I feel so at loss and it is so sad, that I can\'t stay calm and peaceful and can\'t answer with love. I feel defeated and I guess, they feel as someone who know it better with the modern science on their side. They are enlightend and I am ... don\'t know what.
This protestant ingnorance/arrogance annoys me. O please, God, have mercy with me!
Jannis
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