Jane Coaston

My mother was an adult convert who converted in order to marry my father because my grandma had one rule and that was it.

Yep.

So she did what they used to call RCIA.

They don't call it that anymore.

They changed the acronym because they keep changing things.

No, it's like, no.

I hate it when things change.

I know.

It's the end with your spirit thing that none of us have moved past.

It's end also with you.

But there is something people do when they convert to religions as an adult, which is natural.

And they're especially converting to Catholicism and doing so very publicly.

So there are two pieces to this.

One, people convert because they think the religion confirms stuff they already think.

So you see this when you see all these excited articles about how all these conservative young men are converting to Catholicism.

And I'm like, yeah, because they think that Catholicism is going to tell them like, wow, you know, the Nicene...

something is all about how women shouldn't talk and you know this you know letter from paul to the ephesians is all about how it would be so great if you got to sleep with women and they had to remain monogamous or whatever it's just like you are converting to a religion because you think that the religion will change for you not that you will have to change on behalf of your religion

And I think like we see that endlessly, which is also why we see all these people being mad at the pope for saying pope things like poverty is bad and we should try to limit it or war is bad, which are all pretty like standard things for popes to say, like pretty general things.

like pretty general popish things.

And you see all these commenters being like, I'm a Catholic, but the last two popes haven't really been Pope.