I don’t understand it, to be honest. It may be cultural. To learn two ways to handwrite is a waste of time, agreed, but why choose the one which was not thought to be handwritten?

In France, children learn only cursive. It’s kind of strange to learn how to manually write like a typewriter…

Taking drugs, in France, is not a crime but an offence (délit). I have to report crimes but not offences.

French pastor here: at least in France, I am bound by professional secrecy, except for crimes. If I hear someone committed a crime, even more so if it’s a repeated offense, I can and will report it. I believe it’s the same for other professions, except perhaps lawyers: if a doctor learn that someone did or do a crime, they have to report it.

It’s probably different in your country, I just said that because I find that interesting.

Pleasure Steak

Do you believe your wife will go to hell?

No. I don’t believe in all that “you have to confess Jesus as your personal lord and saviour to avoid hell” crap. It’s in fact something not very widespread outside evangelicalism. I believe the Cross is working mysteriously, far outside the frontier of the visible Church. A God who condemns people that doesn’t recognize him is not a loving God, it’s a pervert. I believe that “to confess Jesus as my personal lord and saviour” is a way to live a better life here and now, and I don’t expect an eternal reward for that.

Is she agnostic or does she believe there is no god?

I’d say she’s agnostic atheist. She doesn’t know if God exist, but believes he does not, and in fact doesn’t care.

I’m a Christian pastor happily married to an atheist, AMA.