Very, very strange

[ellid]

What would compel an otherwise ordinary and seemingly sane, rational, reasonable individual to tell a complete stranger that she's "really a Catholic" based solely on her belief in an afterlife? And then to persist in telling her this despite being informed that the stranger in question was raised in one of the Free Churches and belongs to another, and disagrees strongly with Catholic church administration, teachings about the status of women, and female ordination? And continued despite several polite shakes of the head and demurrals on the grounds that all the stranger's objections were mere to "church administration" and that the stranger could assist in the work of changing the Catholic church in regards to female equality, church governance, etc., despite already belonging to a church that believes in all of the above and has for a very long time?

This is what happened to me over breakfast this morning, and I'm still trying to figure out if this was a peculiar attempt at flirting, a genuine effort at conversion, or simple lunacy. Any ideas?

Comments

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Why couldn't it be all three?

I think the Catholic Church is losing people at an astonishing rate, is the problem.

[samantha-vimes.livejournal.com]

Sounds like conversion to me.

[lherelenfeline.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a very ham fisted attempt at conversion.

[mistress-kabuki.livejournal.com]

I always chalk that sort of experience up to lunacy. people can become very, very strange about religion.

[orphandani.livejournal.com]

Lunacy. Simple or otherwise. :)

[tree_and_leaf]

...?

That's peculiar, all right.

[briony530.livejournal.com]

Nutjob.