As for conversion or no more relationship I don't really see it as a big deal... to some people it's really important and they want to share their life with someone else who feels or acts like its important too... Hell I've seen people break up here because they didn't like the same baseball team... "become a cubs fan right now or we're through..." Ended right there lol...
So I really don't see the big deal... relationships end all the time because people don't see things the same way or live the same kind of lifestyle... Just because religion is there shouldn't make a difference...
Edit: also with religion it becomes a thing when you have kids together and deciding how to raise them...
It's worth noting those die-hard Christian chics are probably freaks in the sack.
They just don't know it sometimes. :D
Inb4 feminismlolol
Yeah, but so are Catholics.
You know which one won't try to press their religion on me?
The one who only goes to mass twice a year and even then doesn't understand how using birth control makes her a hypocrite.
My roommate and I are both atheist, and her son is just starting to think about things. He's asked her to go to this church thing this week from 9am-12pm, some bus has been picking him up, he says he really likes it. So I ask what they talked about and what he though, all he said was there's Oreos, and they painted. lol
my parents are like that, and I hate talking about that stuff with them, while I do believe in God and all that, I don't revolve my life, beliefs, habits, music and activities around them like they do. every conversation ends up being turned into a religious talk, and when something is going wrong "just pray for the best"
rly? like praying for stuff will actually get stuff (like being out of debt, fix the house mortgage, passing a test, get a raise w/e).
/sigh I just stay quiet and ignore em or walk out of the room.
I kinda refuse to have a public conversation about politics/religion usually, just because people who don't have anything to do with the conversation butt in with their ideas and I really don't like that.
I just clam up and go find a book or something till it's done.
I will with close friends and family members (other than my dad).
Basically, my brother, his wife, and I had a small get-together at my brother's house two years ago. Keg, darts, etc. My dad got drunk...Like ridiculous crying about his love and dedication to Jesus drunk, insulted my gay cousin and his partner, and just embarrassed the living crap out of both of us in front of our circle of friends. He hit fifty-whatever, and went batshit crazy about Jesus to the point that it's mortifying to have him in social situations no matter what the circumstance.
I kinda refuse to have a public conversation about politics/religion usually, just because people who don't have anything to do with the conversation butt in with their ideas and I really don't like that.
I just clam up and go find a book or something till it's done.
I will with close friends and family members (other than my dad).
Basically, my brother, his wife, and I had a small get-together at my brother's house two years ago. Keg, darts, etc. My dad got drunk...Like ridiculous crying about his love and dedication to Jesus drunk, insulted my gay cousin and his partner, and just embarrassed the living crap out of both of us in front of our circle of friends. He hit fifty-whatever, and went batshit crazy about Jesus to the point that it's mortifying to have him in social situations no matter what the circumstance.
I won't talk religion or politics with anyone really, too many *** weirdos out there that love to try to push ***on you if they don't like your affiliation.
I don't see why your parents find it necessary to continually jam Christianity down your throat in your adulthood. You're the AH sweetpea! I can't imagine you being anything else outside of here.
I try to be nice, but I tell people off sometimes. My folks are fundamentalist Baptists atm (they bounced around a few different denominations before settling on Baptist) and they are just very, very concerned that anyone who is not also a fundamentalist Baptist is going to hell. I'm sure it's frightening for them to think that their youngest daughter is on a high wide road to hell, but as their youngest daughter, they drive me crazy over it. xD
They are also mad that I support gay rights. Either they'll get over it or they won't, I'm finding it harder to care one way or the other. :-( So I'm not that sweet irl, if I don't even care if my parents have serious moral and ethical problems with my personal beliefs. If I was sweet, I'd have my own beliefs but I'd still give a darn what they thought. I just don't anymore. I used to, and I felt like a rug being walked on all the time.
After my last relationship... I'm just sick of religion. I'll respect her for having hers, but if she finds it to be the basis of our relationship entirely, I want nothing to do her. I don't know how many times I kept hearing her tell me that she doesn't want our relationship to go further until I convert to Christianity. No more.
This is because of a Bible verse strictly forbidding anyone to be "unequally yoked" with a nonbeliever. In other words, she's forbidden to be with you if she believes and you do not. She's not allowed to respect your beliefs, even if she wanted to.
I can have conversations about it, I state my opinion on the matter and I listen to their side attentively. In this day and age, they(theist) are still saying the same things time and time again, and we(atheist) are also saying the same things. There is really no middle ground we can reach.
I am however interested if most theist, denomination doesn't matter. Was this something forced upon you at early childhood and something you just felt you had to do?
This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.