Interview on March 16, 2023 with Lilian, who is studying nursing, outside the Cimmarusti Science Center at Glendale Community College.
Do you consider yourself religious?
Lilian: I do believe in God, but I don’t believe in religion. I’m maybe a little bit religious. I believe that we are created by God, but I don’t believe in attending church or any get-together with any religion. So it’s just that I believe there’s a God.
Why do you believe there’s a God?
Lilian: Because of my mom. She’s a Christian. She goes to church. She’s a firm believer and I’ve seen a few things in my life that I believe God has given when we most need it.
Do you believe in a life after death?
Lilian: I believe in mostly reincarnation, rather than that there’s a heaven or hell. I believe that our soul is recycled. I’ve heard many stories of people having memories of their past selves.
Do you read the Bible?
Lilian: No.
How do you learn about God?
Lilian: I did when I was a child, through church. But I felt like what the Bible says about God… I didn’t like what it said.
If you learned about God at church but don’t like what the Bible says about God, how did you decide to believe what you believe now?
Lilian: That’s a hard one. I was trying different religions and I felt like none of them were for me. So I decided just to believe in God and live my life.
What is it that you don’t like about religions and what the Bible says?
Lilian: I don’t like the way they treat women, mostly. I don’t like how they blame the women most of the time when a relationship fails. I don’t like how they are against other people’s beliefs just because it’s not their beliefs and they get mistreated because of that. I think we should all just respect everyone if they believe in aliens or whatever they believe, we should just look at the person how they are, rather than what they do, or who they believe in.
Do you believe there are sins?
Lilian: No.
Do you believe there is nothing that is objectively wrong?
Lilian: I believe that when someone does something that’s for a reason, it’s not that they like to commit the sin; I believe there’s always something that leads them to commit that sin.
A moment ago you said there are no sins. So is it a sin?
Lilian: No, I don’t think so. They call it a sin, but for me, it’s not a sin. For instance, a lot of people think murder is a sin. But I’ve seen stories where the father or the mother finds their child being sexually abused and they react by murdering the person and I don’t consider it a sin.
Is it a sin if someone sexually abuses a child and then kills the child?
Lilian: I would say yes and no because sometimes there’s a motive for why that person sexually abuses a child. They had a rough life that led to them doing that. But that one’s a little hard.
Do you think abortion, which ends the life of a human being, is fine to do?
Lilian: Yeah, I believe that’s fine to do.
If a biological male dresses like a woman, says he’s a woman, and asks to be referred to with female pronouns, is he a woman?
Lilian: In a sense he is a woman but, like I was being taught in class, when it comes to medical emergencies, they go by what they were born as. So I would just put them in a different category as what they are: trans women. And keep it separate.
Watch short interview with Lilian.
Thumbs down. I’m dummer after reading this.
Insanity
Like many today, this mindless girl has no religious and moral training. Waste of time. How did she even graduate from junior high or middle school? Why not instead, interview a mature, educated Catholic student, with a good mind– who is a future leader in his or her field?
You don’t have to know anything to graduate anymore. Diplomas don’t mean anything anymore. Welcome to woke education, where every student passes and advances because teachers and administrators don’t want to make anyone feel bad nor appear to be “white” or “colonizing” by upholding objective standards of accomplishment or — the horror — excellence.
Have any students from “Catholic” Loyola Marymount University, the University of San Diego, or the University of San Francisco ever been interviewed? Or Thomas Aquinas College?
Maybe she will come around the next time as someone who actually works for a living. I would call that “karma”. Not that I really do believe in re incarnation.
One of my favorite responsorial psalms is”If today you hear His voice, harden not your heart.” This really resonated with me, a former agnostic who determinedly resisted in believing in God. Finally, He was able to break through my hardened heart and allow me to see the good that His mercy could provide. I pray that this young woman, who like all of us is on a journey to the Truth, matures and sees God’s bountiful mercy that is available to his children at the Heavenly Banquet.
Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy.
I hope you are right, but too often it goes the other way. I had to work part time, even while going to high school in the 1950’s, and the schools were a whole lot better back then. It taught me to be responsible. My daughters had to work while going to college. Now days many students think that someone else should pay for their food, clothing, education and the whole shebang while they sit on their behinds.
If this young woman is actually working at a decent job to help support herself in college, I owe her an apology about that. There were times when I overworked myself, working outside the home during the week and on the weekends, when I should have taken time off to go to Church and relax with my family instead of greedily looking forward to the extra money from overtime. I should not take out that frustration on others who might not be guilty of laziness. My husband tends to be a workaholic too, which makes for some unnecessary “battles” at times.
“Virtue is in the middle.”
Amen.
I do not like “gotcha” interviews. Very disrespectful.
I liked the interviews with the young Catholics that she used to do better.
What’s the point of these articles? Most college students are liberal, we get it
The link to the short interview does not work.
Thanks – fixed now.
Didn’t know you were on Youtube. Thanks.
She could have just answered “Whatever bro…” to all of the questions and made just as much sense.
Dear Cal Catholic editors, this observation by Fr. John Higgens just might be the comment of the year.
Why do people who identify as Catholics feel the need to hit below the belt?
My Catechism says that St. Mary is the only human protected from sin. I’m trying every day to get better because honestly, it’s in my self interest as I will be one day closer to my judgement.
The Catholic Church teaches that each human soul is distinct. People are not reincarnated. Each soul is made by God.
And this behemoth wants to be a nurse. I feel badly for her patients. Rudderless morality.