Or rather, Chris outed me. As an atheist. To his uber-religious, retired pastor MIL. On Easter weekend.
*rubs temples*
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LOL!
You're going to get an *awesome* birthday gift this year.
Oh why would he DO that to you?
His mother was frustrating him with religious musings, so he burst out that I'm an athiest and he, at best, is a diest, but leaning farther away.
And when I say "religious musings," picture her staring into thin air saying things about "glorious God our creator...rejoicing...etc."
Religious musings make me squirmy, and I'm not an atheist. It was just never part of my upbringing to do that.
Honestly, while I'm sure some people have an honest and sincere conviction and say things like that out of sincerity, it pretty much always just looks showy to me. I'm also never sure if I'm supposed to respond, and I'm afraid that if I do respond that I'll be opening up a whole conversation I don't want to have.
So, I nod and smile. Of course if I were nodding and smiling for three days straight, I'd probably pop, too.
Yikes! Glad I wasn't sitting anywhere near that conversation.
Lol Kim! Have fun! She may shun you for years. Poor you, & poor Chris. He just didn't think it through - did he? I hope you get some nice backrubs or something out of him for the debacle.
I agree Fro, it seems so "put on for show". It takes all my strength to not say "Have a day" to those that tell me to have a blessed day. My tongue as lots of bite marks.
(((Kim))) Chris deserves a few beatings with a wet noodles and should be your slave for awhile.
I'm not anti-Christian, anti-God or anything else. Whatever makes you feel good/whole/inspired/hopeful and not act like a jerk to others. When it leads to discrimination, hipocricy, hate, or blind idiocy, then I have an issue.
I just find when people say those things like "have a blessed day" or such, it's so presumptuous that EVERYONE is a Christian and believer. Everyone isn't and everyone doesn't need you "praying you (the heathen) will find Jesus."
I've met many wonderful, devout people, who do a lovely job of keeping their religion between themselves and their fellow believers. And even if they offer to guide a person into religion that seems wanting/open to it, it's done in a tactful, discrete way that respects the other's privacy and wishes. My MIL isn't that sort of person.
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