As I'm here visiting family in my home state, I'm taking my parents to a funeral this morning that will be conducted by a preacher who believes in a form of "soul sleep," who believes the soul is unconscious until the resurrection, at which point the saved will be raised with "spirit bodies" -- entirely new bodies composed of spirit (which is a contradiction of terms), unrelated to the old.

Meanwhile he insists that Catholics don't even believe in the resurrection (we allegedly only believe our souls flit off into heaven to live in a disembodied state forever).

Yet the truth is we believe what the Apostles' Creed plainly proclaims: We believe in the resurrection of the body. ⬅️ Can't get clearer than that.

This preacher baptized me in 1993, and he knows me well, and over the years I've explained to him exhaustively many times what Catholics believe. But in his stubbornness, he will not admit publicly the truth of what Catholics actually teach.

He has no idea yet I'm in town. During his funeral talk, I hope he watches me watching him as he tells his lies.

I should do that Robert DeNiro gesture to him with my fingers and eyes. 😆