Unequally Yoked
June 17, 2014 at 3:42 am
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(June 16, 2014 at 9:10 pm)Strongbad Wrote:(June 16, 2014 at 5:38 pm)ShaMan Wrote: Hi everyone
I am also “unequally yoked” to a woman (26th anniversary in August 2014) who thinks she is a Christian because that’s what her parents told her she is. She rarely discusses religion with me because she is afraid of the possibility that I am right, and she “can’t bear to imagine that she will never see her parents again after they die”.
I'm in a similar boat. My wife was raised by a slut-shaming YEC mother who obviously cares, but can't seem to express love or affection without henpecking disapproval from hair color (and we're talking natural shades, the last minor change was promoted comments about "needing to find a healthier way to express herself") to tattoos, and invoking Jesus.
Luckily, she's sharp as a tack, and figured out on her own that large parts of what she was taught to believe is BS, but still holds on to some vague deistic beliefs involving Jesus I can't quite pin down.
Which are fine, I have no problem with her believing in god, but I'm openly critical about religion and my problem with "divine justice" and the afterlife, because it removes the drive for, you know, actual justice, and it deeply upsets me. She's critical of organized religion herself.
Talks about religion go well, and she discarded the YEC label pretty quickly once I pointed out she believes six days of creation refer to billions of years, doesn't see a conflict with abiogenesis, and only rejected "Macroevolution" because she didn't understand the (nonexistent) difference, and didn't spend time looking into it.
These aren't beliefs she spent any time critically thinking about, didn't bring up in conversation, and maintained as background noise.
Our Sunday coffee religion chats have been on hold for a while now, but from what I gathered last, Jesus and Buddha were "conduits" to an omnimax God, most of the bible is made up of parables. Today she posted Eddie Izzard's "Noah's Ark" bit, tagged me and a mutual friend who is a vocal atheist.
