RE: Family Vs Me (Non believer)
September 2, 2010 at 3:16 am
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2010 at 3:16 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(September 2, 2010 at 2:16 am)Bull Poopie Wrote: Hello,Hello! I believe we've met... (elsewhere on the forum). Let me see if I can provide some insight.
(September 2, 2010 at 2:16 am)Bull Poopie Wrote: I need some help or opinions! I have gotten into an arguments with my family. I am of course a non believer and I have a very religious family. We'll they decided to announce to me that I am a unfit mother to my son because I am a Skpetic/ Atheist. I was called the devil and that I am going to hell . That what I believe is not a good influence on my son that I am damaging him. I would say keep me in your prayers but I don't even pray! Hahahah. I am trying to keep a open mind and funny about it but I have to consult a lawyer tomorrow. This is the exact bigtory and unrelentless influence people try to inpose upon others. I may not be here but only off and on for a while because I will be tied up in court. If you have any opinions please share because I am frustrated and annoyed over this.
The situation is indeed distressing. Still, this is an easy answer that even many religious families argue to their benefit in lawsuits against the state over evolution and sex education and other controversial issues:
He's your son. Period.
I don't know what court-related thing is happening - if your family is taking litigation against you or if you're litigating at them for interfering in your parentage of your own child. Either way, I wish you the best, though frankly assuming you're not in the Kansas, Texas, or Alabama christian theocracies, I can only predict a very constitutional outcome of being allowed to raise your child however you want. If something other than that happens, that's when you get the ACLU involved. I don't expect that to happen, but always try to be two steps ahead of where you need to be and you'll be making sure your son knows the difference between fantasy and reality before you know it.
EDIT: Damn it minimalist, you beat me to the punch... again I think.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
