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wedrifid comments on Thwarting a Catholic conversion? - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Jay_Schweikert 18 June 2012 04:26PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 20 June 2012 11:18:59AM 0 points [-]

I don't think the conversion will last.

How confident are you? How long?

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 20 June 2012 11:28:19AM *  0 points [-]

Confidence is low. But I give it six months. ETA: The reason is that she's a rationalist, not a mysterian. She's been seduced by Catholic metaphysics and her private mysticism, but the intellectual baggage of Catholic doctrine is what ought to kill it for her in the end. Her day job is public health. Will she really be willing to believe that a young girl in Boston had her liver healed because Edith Stein interceded from beyond the grave?