I am posting this on here rather then Facebook, as I do not what to start some battle with members of my family. But this really upset me and I need to vent. Stephen wrote a post about there being no god. And a family member of mine reply, very much disagreeing with him and it went back and forth. And let me say, Stephen was not being rude at all. But I know this family member well, and I know she is very vocal and it seems a lot of the time, her way or no way. Stephen told her, she believes what she believes,and its a free country. She insisted that no matter what country there is a god and such. And she brought me in. Bad choice. She wrote that our grandma taught us about God and that he should ask his wife to be about it. Again Wrong choice. First off, I love Stephen regardless of our beliefs and such, we do disagree on somethings. I can not and do not want to change that about him. He believes what he believes and I truly respect that. Vice versa. Please never speak for me or drag me into an argument. I loved my grandma, she passed when I was 11. I can honestly barely remember that age and I have little but great memories of her. And not one was about her teaching me about God. And that's okay. I understand where my family member was coming from, my grandma helped raised them. We moved to ontario when I was in six grade and moved back after she passed. I respect my grandma's love for God, because I know she is with her God. I just felt like said FM was trying to get me to change Stephen's belief, when that is not my job. And then she brought Dylan in it, saying that she just wants to make sure I teach him about God because if I don't I am held responsible. Responsible for what? I don't understand. Will I be damned to hell? Because I have already been told I damned Dylan to hell because he was born out of wedlock. Whatever God is out there, I truly do not believe will damn my innocent sweet little boy.
I am confident that Dylan will grow up and believe what he wants to. I will teach him about all kinds of things and he can decide what he wants to take from all that.
But with someone like me, you can not push something on me . I am a rebel at heart, always have been. I don't think I will be able to "grow" out of it. I will come around, on my own time and my own terms with my own beliefs.
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The religion thing is a hard one. I keep my beliefs to myself most of the time because I find that when I tell people I'm an Atheist they take it as a personal insult rather than just recognize that I have a belief different from theirs. My mom told me she cried when I told her I didn't believe in God and Grandma C. - well she just looked appalled lol - I think she was even speechless for a moment which was amazing (since she never stops talking).
I'm helping to raise my two step-daughters and we're letting them discover what religion and God is at their own pace. When they ask about it - we tell them about it. They've gone to Church a few times because they wanted to see what it was like and the oldest one even asked for her own bible. I may not agree with this - but I'm also not going to deprive her of the experience of learning about it. I think that's good that you seem to have the same types of plans for Dylan.
Yeah, I usually keep my beliefs to myself, mostly just to avoid judgement.My mom's side of the family are catholics and they are all already asking when we are going to baptized Dylan. When I shrugged and say I don't know, the stares I get lol. I can't push all my beliefs on Dylan, I can try but he is his own person and soon enough he will speak for himself and figure all that stuff out.
I don't understand the judgement placed on people who are Atheist. It's not like you are hurting anyone. If someone is confident and secure in their belief, then someone else's should not pose a threat.
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