Hate to be self-promoting, but I just wrote a blog post on this that you might find useful.
Given that conversions tend to be driven by people’s personal connections, probably realistically the best thing you can do to stop something like this (at least in the future) is get someone a good support network of non-believing friends.
Though that’s probably not what I’d do in your situation. I’d be screaming at hear that the Catholic church is evil and if she must be religious, why can’t she be a nice Episcopalian or something? Which is kinda what I do in my blog post, who knows if she’ll follow the blog ping to it.
Um, as a slightly nicer approach that will still get at the “Catholic church is evil” thing, you might try to get her to read William Lobdell’s book “Losing My Religion,” which talks about how (among other things) being a journalist covering the Catholic sexual abuse scandals led to him leaving the church.
Hate to be self-promoting, but I just wrote a blog post on this that you might find useful.
Given that conversions tend to be driven by people’s personal connections, probably realistically the best thing you can do to stop something like this (at least in the future) is get someone a good support network of non-believing friends.
Though that’s probably not what I’d do in your situation. I’d be screaming at hear that the Catholic church is evil and if she must be religious, why can’t she be a nice Episcopalian or something? Which is kinda what I do in my blog post, who knows if she’ll follow the blog ping to it.
Um, as a slightly nicer approach that will still get at the “Catholic church is evil” thing, you might try to get her to read William Lobdell’s book “Losing My Religion,” which talks about how (among other things) being a journalist covering the Catholic sexual abuse scandals led to him leaving the church.