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How do you deal with superior religious family?

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How do you deal with superior religious family?
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RE: How do you deal with superior religious family?
November 8, 2009 at 9:55 pm
(November 7, 2009 at 7:52 pm)binny Wrote: Whatever. I will not bring up god during Thanksgiving dinner.

You may not bring up god, but they will. "Let's all join hands now, bow our heads and give thanks to god."

And if you pander to them by joining hands and bowing your head, you have just been intellectually raped.

If you politely refuse and excuse yourself from the table, as I have done, they will ridicule you. But, if you stick to your principles and beliefs, leave the table, go outside until they are finished, they will have a conversation among themselves and at the next family gathering you may find that they did their religious rituals before you got there. True story.
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How do you deal with superior religious family? - by binny - November 7, 2009 at 1:02 pm
RE: How do you deal with superior religious family? - by Secularone - November 8, 2009 at 9:55 pm
RE: How do you deal with superior religious family? - by fr0d0 - November 13, 2009 at 10:20 pm
RE: How do you deal with superior religious family? - by fr0d0 - November 14, 2009 at 12:22 am

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