RE: Oh boy ...
September 20, 2010 at 6:46 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2010 at 6:48 pm by DiRNiS.)
I feel for you dude, but that's a very good response. Respectable, polite and I do not think it is too cutting at all. Your family has to understand that everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and opinions. In their mind they may be thinking that you will be going to burn for eternity in hell if you don't believe and you will not be joining them in heaven.
You are right in saying that you cannot pretend to believe as you would just be living a lie. We should be able to keep our own personal beliefs and opinions and have nobody else trying to ram down their different beliefs down our throats. It sucks that the relationship with your parents has to suffer because of religious beliefs. Your response is good and will hopefully help them understand your point of view. However, in the mind of the deeply religious, anything that contradicts their fairy tale view of the world is often something they will not accept.
Good luck.
One of my future prospects is to move to a place where religion has the least amount of relevance in society.
Any ideas?
You are right in saying that you cannot pretend to believe as you would just be living a lie. We should be able to keep our own personal beliefs and opinions and have nobody else trying to ram down their different beliefs down our throats. It sucks that the relationship with your parents has to suffer because of religious beliefs. Your response is good and will hopefully help them understand your point of view. However, in the mind of the deeply religious, anything that contradicts their fairy tale view of the world is often something they will not accept.
Good luck.
One of my future prospects is to move to a place where religion has the least amount of relevance in society.
Any ideas?
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
