RE: Help Me Answer My Evangelical Aunt's Most Recent Email!
December 29, 2011 at 4:10 pm
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2011 at 4:11 pm by Cyberman.)
It's always a minefield giving advice on family and other personal matters. However I'm going to have to side with Perhaps on this one. Obviously you know more about the relationship with your aunt than we possibly could, so only you know whether it's worth getting into an argument over this. Sometimes it's better to concede a battle and all that.
A few years ago I did a temporary stint in an office (this was some while after leaving the Civil Service) and one of my colleagues was a lovely little West Indian lady; bubbly personality, smile for everybody, lovely to be around. She did have one little foible, though, which I've never encountered before or since: she would talk to Jesus. I don't mean she'd pray and have the usual 'personal relationship' that we often hear tell about - I mean she would be talking about ordinary things (shopping, the weather, EastEnders or whatever) then she'd suddenly break off, look thoughtful for a few moments, then nod and say "Yes, ok Lord" or something similar and tell me about what Jesus had just told her to do or say. In every other respect she was as rational and ordinary as anyone I've ever met, but she was such a sweet little thing it would have been like shooting a puppy to get into a debate about it.
If you prefer to make light of it, try showing your aunt this and see what she says:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/635643...all-player
(sorry I couldn't find it on YouTube for you.)
A few years ago I did a temporary stint in an office (this was some while after leaving the Civil Service) and one of my colleagues was a lovely little West Indian lady; bubbly personality, smile for everybody, lovely to be around. She did have one little foible, though, which I've never encountered before or since: she would talk to Jesus. I don't mean she'd pray and have the usual 'personal relationship' that we often hear tell about - I mean she would be talking about ordinary things (shopping, the weather, EastEnders or whatever) then she'd suddenly break off, look thoughtful for a few moments, then nod and say "Yes, ok Lord" or something similar and tell me about what Jesus had just told her to do or say. In every other respect she was as rational and ordinary as anyone I've ever met, but she was such a sweet little thing it would have been like shooting a puppy to get into a debate about it.
If you prefer to make light of it, try showing your aunt this and see what she says:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/635643...all-player
(sorry I couldn't find it on YouTube for you.)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
