RE: This Has to Stop
September 14, 2017 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2017 at 2:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I agree that parents who indoctrinate their children aren't intentionally shitting on them...that's not what they're trying to do. It is, however, what they've done. Most of the time I;m willing to bet that they lie to their children for the same reason I lie to my own. For the same reason that the lie of every religion was concocted. To get them off my nuts when they ask questions.
They've shown that their respect and deference lies with the church, not their children. At least I have a good (and honest) excuse for my own shenanigans, it's funny. I;ve convinced my children..for example, that the north pole (and ipso facto santas workshop) is between kentucky and ohio. The christers have convinced their children to accept a human sacrifice for their own innumerable misdeeds. That their actions, engaged in lovingly and with full belief in jesusism..then go on to produce broken and duplicitous people (and often unconscientiously so) is hardly surprising. I doubt that my daughter, on the other hand...will ever be here on AF plumping for Santa In The Hills and denigrating themselves and their fellow man the whole way in doing so.
All while expressing shock, shock I say!...at the notion that their mommy and daddy may not have given them the kind of upbringing they deserved, but, rather.. did what the shaman told them to.
People genuinely believing that they were right is the engine behind all the worst examples, and does nothing to rescue our mommys and daddys..or ourselves, when we fuck up. At some point, even I have to come clean with my kids....because if I don't..they'll either consider me a liar..or worse yet...continue to believe that shit into adulthood - as the christers commonly do.
Consider how you would assess the scenario in the case of my lie, perpetuated into adulthood, and cultivated with the same level of adherence indicative of religious faith. You would think that something was wrong with my children, and that this something was most likely me. Christers, and specifically our christer mothers, though, get a pass.
Mine believed in pagan gods and magical healing. If I decided to cast my lot in with cantrips over cancer.....and you could isolate my insistence on miracle cures to my mothers religious indoctrination...would you offer the same warm defense?
Christerism seeks to exempt itself from criticism by the hooks of our loved ones and what silly christer shit they do. How "normal" it all is. How "genuine". How they're just trying to love us. I grant no such exemption. It;s not normal, it;s not genuine, and it's not love. Those people may be normal, and genuine, and love you/us....but that's not what they were up to when they told you about magic book/building/man.
They've shown that their respect and deference lies with the church, not their children. At least I have a good (and honest) excuse for my own shenanigans, it's funny. I;ve convinced my children..for example, that the north pole (and ipso facto santas workshop) is between kentucky and ohio. The christers have convinced their children to accept a human sacrifice for their own innumerable misdeeds. That their actions, engaged in lovingly and with full belief in jesusism..then go on to produce broken and duplicitous people (and often unconscientiously so) is hardly surprising. I doubt that my daughter, on the other hand...will ever be here on AF plumping for Santa In The Hills and denigrating themselves and their fellow man the whole way in doing so.
All while expressing shock, shock I say!...at the notion that their mommy and daddy may not have given them the kind of upbringing they deserved, but, rather.. did what the shaman told them to.
People genuinely believing that they were right is the engine behind all the worst examples, and does nothing to rescue our mommys and daddys..or ourselves, when we fuck up. At some point, even I have to come clean with my kids....because if I don't..they'll either consider me a liar..or worse yet...continue to believe that shit into adulthood - as the christers commonly do.
Consider how you would assess the scenario in the case of my lie, perpetuated into adulthood, and cultivated with the same level of adherence indicative of religious faith. You would think that something was wrong with my children, and that this something was most likely me. Christers, and specifically our christer mothers, though, get a pass.
Mine believed in pagan gods and magical healing. If I decided to cast my lot in with cantrips over cancer.....and you could isolate my insistence on miracle cures to my mothers religious indoctrination...would you offer the same warm defense?
Christerism seeks to exempt itself from criticism by the hooks of our loved ones and what silly christer shit they do. How "normal" it all is. How "genuine". How they're just trying to love us. I grant no such exemption. It;s not normal, it;s not genuine, and it's not love. Those people may be normal, and genuine, and love you/us....but that's not what they were up to when they told you about magic book/building/man.
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