RE: My girlfriend got discriminated by some of her family
June 6, 2014 at 12:51 pm
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2014 at 12:52 pm by SteelCurtain.)
So long as Sherry didn't actually overstep her bounds by trying to influence Spencer to be an atheist, I think the sister is way out of line. Even if she did overstep those bounds, writing her off forever is an extreme over-reaction. Whether there is a boundary there as far as teaching the kid about atheism or not is the sister's call, but the idea that even talking about atheism to a 12 year old being a mortal sin is past ridonkulous.
The only thing you can do is support Sherry through this time, and encourage dialogue between the two that is as far removed from high emotion as possible. Email is a great medium for that. You can spend a lot of time formulating what you want to say to a person while keeping their emotions and possible reactions in mind, so as to come to some sort of understanding and compromise rather than having a bare-knuckle brawl.
The only thing you can do is support Sherry through this time, and encourage dialogue between the two that is as far removed from high emotion as possible. Email is a great medium for that. You can spend a lot of time formulating what you want to say to a person while keeping their emotions and possible reactions in mind, so as to come to some sort of understanding and compromise rather than having a bare-knuckle brawl.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---
