(October 12, 2015 at 9:01 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm gobsmacked that a parent could let a book written by primitive people about submission and human sacrifice come between them and their children.
Where's the harm, people always ask?
My Mother used that horrible book to disown her own parents. Then she used that horrible book to force my Father (who was a lovely, gentle, brilliant man -- but way TOO gentle) to not have any contact with his own brother - his only sibling - because she found out that he drank alcohol at a business convention. Then she used that horrible book to disown me and my brother - her only two children. Then she used that horrible book to force my father to disown his father, because our Grandfather welcomed me into his house after she decreed that he shouldn't.
Why? Because she believed that if she showed the slightest tolerance for any type of sin, gawd would send her to hell with the sinners.
Oh yeah, where's the harm???
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
