RE: Dealing with your religious family.
November 17, 2011 at 12:19 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2011 at 12:22 pm by mayor of simpleton.)
My parents are very much involved in the church (Christian) where they live. They seem to be under the assumption that my views are the same as theirs. I have found that voicing my opinion seems to get me nowhere. They just tune it out.
I simply let them believe what it is that they believe. It's not my life and I don't have to live it for them.
If I manage to do anything that is "good", well... of course this was Jesus, but if I fail at anything, well... logically that was 100% me. I've sort of learned to laugh at it under my breath.
The constantly pray for me. I'm quite sure that they feel that I am incapable to do anything without some sort of holy intervention. The logic goes as follows... if it all works out, then praise the lord, if it does not, then I obviously did something in disrespect to god; thus my punishment is just.
I sort of look at their prayers for me like people at a bowling tourney. There is silence until the ball is thrown, then they all cheer the ball on it's way. Right! As if their "cheers" will somehow influence the direction of the ball. I suppose it is their way of feeling like they have a stock in my life.
Then again, my family is really odd. I was a professional cyclist for 3 years (short list for the 1988 Olympics) and they never noticed it. In spite of them both being coaches for sports in High School, the obvious seems to escape them.
I suppose that in many ways, you cannot help the helpless.
Meow!
GREG
I simply let them believe what it is that they believe. It's not my life and I don't have to live it for them.
If I manage to do anything that is "good", well... of course this was Jesus, but if I fail at anything, well... logically that was 100% me. I've sort of learned to laugh at it under my breath.
The constantly pray for me. I'm quite sure that they feel that I am incapable to do anything without some sort of holy intervention. The logic goes as follows... if it all works out, then praise the lord, if it does not, then I obviously did something in disrespect to god; thus my punishment is just.
I sort of look at their prayers for me like people at a bowling tourney. There is silence until the ball is thrown, then they all cheer the ball on it's way. Right! As if their "cheers" will somehow influence the direction of the ball. I suppose it is their way of feeling like they have a stock in my life.
Then again, my family is really odd. I was a professional cyclist for 3 years (short list for the 1988 Olympics) and they never noticed it. In spite of them both being coaches for sports in High School, the obvious seems to escape them.
I suppose that in many ways, you cannot help the helpless.
Meow!
GREG
Moral is as moral does and as moral wishes it all too be. - MoS
The absence of all empirical evidence for the necessity of intuitive X existing is evidence against the necessary empirical existence of intuitive X - MoS (variation of 180proof)
Athesim is not a system of belief, but rather a single answer to a single question. It is the designation applied by theists to those who do not share their assumption that a god/deity exists. - MoS
I am not one to attribute godlike qualities to things that I am unable to understand. I may never be in the position to understand certain things, but I am not about to create an anthropomorphic deity out of my short-commings. I wish not to errect a monument to my own personal ignorace and demand that others worship this proxy of ego. - MoS
The absence of all empirical evidence for the necessity of intuitive X existing is evidence against the necessary empirical existence of intuitive X - MoS (variation of 180proof)
Athesim is not a system of belief, but rather a single answer to a single question. It is the designation applied by theists to those who do not share their assumption that a god/deity exists. - MoS
I am not one to attribute godlike qualities to things that I am unable to understand. I may never be in the position to understand certain things, but I am not about to create an anthropomorphic deity out of my short-commings. I wish not to errect a monument to my own personal ignorace and demand that others worship this proxy of ego. - MoS
