What is an “Intrinsic” Christian?
Google Image Back in 2006, Author Dannagal Young sprinkled her husband’s bath towel with holy water while he was showering. She got the holy water from a friend, who tried the same thing on her husband, who also had cancer, and he survived. So Young decided to try it as well. A former Catholic, Young describes herself and her husband, Mike, as agnostics, but, she wrote in a recent issue of the New York Times about the holy water, “It couldn’t hurt, right?” She said she “tapped into my childhood Catholicism and faith in a benevolent God as I pictured the magic water covering him with a protective layer.” She did this without his knowledge and acknowledges he “would have been very annoyed” had he known. Mike had what Young describes as “ a benign tumor that had nonetheless taken over his midbrain,” and he died several months after the failed “holy-water therapy.” She describes her frustration with medical solutions at the time but says she now realizes that “science and m...