The Bible

[Clueless Morgan]

My father said I was hell bound and didn't hardly blink an eye. I guess he believe that his heavenly lobotomy will take care of any sadness he might feel for his son throughout eternity.

Cinjin, this is so sad. And Morgan, you too. Wow. Just... wow. My hat is off to you guys, and everyone else out there who has dealt with such a terrible thing just to be who they are. Hugs all around.

Thanks, but the hugs should really go to Cinjin and those in much, much crappier situations that I'm in; my mom's reaction seemed like the knee-jerk response she had been taught as a kid, not a theologically supported statement she was making out of malice or deep abiding belief - she doesn't go to church, she's, as far as I know, never read the bible (in fact I blew her mind the other day when I answered a trivia question about the bible correctly: "How many books are there in the Old Testament?" she couldn't believe that I not only knew how many there were in the OT, but that I calculated that number by using the total number of books minus the number of books in the NT. Blew. Her. Mind.) and her religious convictions currently seem to come from whether she agrees with what a fundamentalist friend of hers spouts about bible stories. She's a major victim of childhood indoctrination, confirmation bias and a complete lack of curiosity about whether her beliefs are true or not.

I didn't take her condemnation all that seriously when she said it and the only reason it made an impression on me in the way it did was because she'd never said anything like that to me before and it completely caught me off guard. My naive 16 year old self didn't expect that answer.

Perhaps one day we'll have a discussion about it and I'll learn whether she feels the same way Cinjin's father feels. Then I might have to do some reevaluating.