Catholics on Twitter and Facebook have been discussing universalism again, and that conversation overlapped with my unpacking of an experience I had when my fifth child was born last week. A priest was arguing against universalism and defined freedom as “the ability to do otherwise.” He said universalism presumes that either God can't not love us or that ultimately, we can't not love God. And if we can't not love then we are not truly free.
Freedom, Newborns, and Hell
Freedom, Newborns, and Hell
Freedom, Newborns, and Hell
Catholics on Twitter and Facebook have been discussing universalism again, and that conversation overlapped with my unpacking of an experience I had when my fifth child was born last week. A priest was arguing against universalism and defined freedom as “the ability to do otherwise.” He said universalism presumes that either God can't not love us or that ultimately, we can't not love God. And if we can't not love then we are not truly free.