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David Bentley Hart's avatar

Ah, yes. A typo that no one noticed.

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Samu's avatar

The tale of your friends' son hit close to home. I, too, am on the spectrum and had a similar experience when I was a young boy of nine. I remember lying in bed for many nights, crying for the injustice of it all. And from fear, too. "Am I going to Hell?" I thought. "Is being sad and afraid enough to condemn me to Hell, too?" These thoughts plagued me. My mother had to come sleep with me because I had become so inconsolable. As we lied together in bed, she would hug me and pet my hair, trying to calm me down. Finally, I calmed down but only after she told me that God couldn't possibly send anyone to Hell. Not even the most depraved psychopath. Still, it damaged my faith and it took fifteen years for me to return to the Christian faith.

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