Probably as rage-y as I get
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 12:50 am
This is about to get all the soap box-y. For some reason I think this is the place to air some of these grievances.
For some reason, I really really REALLY believed that if I was a perfect enough example of how things could be non-threatening and okay, I would be accepted. Not tolerated but accepted. It's hard to watch some of my family members prove me wrong.
I have been as close to a perfect inactive person as they could have asked for. I have never once gone on a tirade against any religion, especially Mormonism. I have never said anything to anyone about how I think the religion is potentially harmful, especially to kids, and I have attended all the church-related family events and visited all the sacrament meetings. I have been excessively careful about how and when I introduced my family to my most serious girlfriend, and I have never pushed them to tolerate drunkenness, sexual behavior, or anything else with which they strongly disagree on their property or within their consciousness.
You cannot tell someone you love them and you want to be around them and simultaneously reject them through your actions. It just isn't okay. Make up your mind.
I really want to comment on the question that posted today about it being hip to stop going to church but I'm going to refrain until today's events are behind me. If it is "hip," that isn't our fault. Maybe that's as far as I should go with that right now.
Except to say, those who leave aren't doing it for hip-ness reasons, necessarily. The only way to honestly doubt does not always include quickly returning to faithfulness. Those kinds of suppositions serve to alienate people like me.
For some reason, I really really REALLY believed that if I was a perfect enough example of how things could be non-threatening and okay, I would be accepted. Not tolerated but accepted. It's hard to watch some of my family members prove me wrong.
I have been as close to a perfect inactive person as they could have asked for. I have never once gone on a tirade against any religion, especially Mormonism. I have never said anything to anyone about how I think the religion is potentially harmful, especially to kids, and I have attended all the church-related family events and visited all the sacrament meetings. I have been excessively careful about how and when I introduced my family to my most serious girlfriend, and I have never pushed them to tolerate drunkenness, sexual behavior, or anything else with which they strongly disagree on their property or within their consciousness.
You cannot tell someone you love them and you want to be around them and simultaneously reject them through your actions. It just isn't okay. Make up your mind.
I really want to comment on the question that posted today about it being hip to stop going to church but I'm going to refrain until today's events are behind me. If it is "hip," that isn't our fault. Maybe that's as far as I should go with that right now.
Except to say, those who leave aren't doing it for hip-ness reasons, necessarily. The only way to honestly doubt does not always include quickly returning to faithfulness. Those kinds of suppositions serve to alienate people like me.