(October 21, 2015 at 11:36 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: It would be interesting to hear her riff on what tolerance, authenticity and obedience mean in the life a Christian. Or maybe something about what sets Christian ideas of community and worship apart from their secular counterparts.
It's more that she feels cheated and betrayed. I was Christian when we married, then I stopped being Christian. She wouldn't have married me if I weren't, now here we are, with kids, and I'm not. She feels trapped into raising the kids as Christians on her own, all while knowing that if the religion is presented to them as optional, they're less likely to care about it. It's pretty much entirely about how she, personally feels slighted.
This goes pretty counter to her liberal beliefs that there is no hell, and when I die, I'm going to go to heaven anyway; I'll just have a bit of egg on my face for having been wrong, and move on with my eternity. So, it's not like she believes I'm getting the bad ending for not being a believer. I'd probably be more accepting of the heaven she believes in than most people who self-identify as Christian would be; she's just upset that I changed my mind after we made commitments.