RE: Well shit...
June 12, 2016 at 11:27 pm
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2016 at 11:28 pm by SteelCurtain.)
He's not fancy drink.
Look, GD, your parents are your parents, and as long as you live in their house, you live be their rules. If I still lived with my parents---even at 31---and if they wanted me to go to church as part of the deal for living in their house, eating their food, using their utilities, etc---I'd have to go if I had no other choice of living arrangements. Fortunately, I do.
You are 15, and for two-three more years you're going to have to live with their rules. Your life is pretty nice---I mean you have your own PS4, XBox, and computer, plus a golf cart, plus a place to live and food to eat. I'm sure there are things that could make it better, but take what you got. Learn some perspective. They can't make you believe in their god. They just can't. If you believe that you are in medical danger or that you need to talk to your therapist, use your phone. Call 911 for the former, and you can get into contact with your therapist for the latter. You have to know their name, and if you don't know their number you can find it easily. Email if necessary. If they feel they need to report, they will.
Work on being as non-confrontational as possible. Ask questions, don't lie about believing or pretend to believe. Let them tire out on getting asked tough questions about their faith. Maybe they'll give up, probably they won't.
Look, GD, your parents are your parents, and as long as you live in their house, you live be their rules. If I still lived with my parents---even at 31---and if they wanted me to go to church as part of the deal for living in their house, eating their food, using their utilities, etc---I'd have to go if I had no other choice of living arrangements. Fortunately, I do.
You are 15, and for two-three more years you're going to have to live with their rules. Your life is pretty nice---I mean you have your own PS4, XBox, and computer, plus a golf cart, plus a place to live and food to eat. I'm sure there are things that could make it better, but take what you got. Learn some perspective. They can't make you believe in their god. They just can't. If you believe that you are in medical danger or that you need to talk to your therapist, use your phone. Call 911 for the former, and you can get into contact with your therapist for the latter. You have to know their name, and if you don't know their number you can find it easily. Email if necessary. If they feel they need to report, they will.
Work on being as non-confrontational as possible. Ask questions, don't lie about believing or pretend to believe. Let them tire out on getting asked tough questions about their faith. Maybe they'll give up, probably they won't.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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