(June 1, 2023 at 5:57 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: I don't collect anything. Just the other day I was thinking about how I feel better with less stuff around me.
(June 1, 2023 at 3:57 pm)MR. Macabre 666 Wrote: I'm and old geezer(64), retired on permanent disability since 2015, and have been married to a devout christian for over 40 years(41 in July).
We have 2 kids, also devout believers, and 4 grandkids aged 15 to 4 years old. Our kid's spouse's both came from the same church they've attended, so I'm completely outnumbered here, but we make it work, somehow.
I'd say. That is interesting how you as a lifelong atheist and a metalhead are married to a devout Christian. Doesn't she see you as satanic with all that heavy and death metal stuff around?
Definitely, we've argued and fought about it for decades until we finally agreed to disagree on the subject. When we got married, she wasn't religious at all. But after our son was born in '83, she started going to church and decided she wanted to become a christian and raise our kids in the church. I told her to leave me out of it, and we fought about it all the time.
She knows that I'm an atheist and hates my choices when it comes to music, movies, books, even my shirt collection, but we've found a way to make it work. I'm also heavily tattooed, and most of it would be considered Satanic or occult by most theists. I've been this way for decades, I've lived in shorts and t-shirts for as long as we've been together.
I had to wear a uniform for the last 25 years that I worked, so it was never a problem with my employer.
