Late Night Ramblings

[dusti_phoenix]

So, I couldn't sleep come four in the morning, and I went and checked my email. An email from one of my dearest old biddies spawned this rant. I really, REALLY wish that I could send this in somewhere to be published, but I don't even know if there would be a point, and if there would be, if people would completely misconstrue the bottom line and

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[breathe_abreath]

*applauds*

It'd be so great if everyone could see it this way, but I know that's too much to ask for. I'm just so tired of people trying to force their religious beliefs on other people. I remember that my in-laws once tried to make me go to church with them one Sunday morning while I was staying there. I hadn't been to church in about 10 years and I didn't see why I should do so for anyone but myself. It's part of the reason my husband was so eager to move to another state and has far less contact with them than I do with my parents, because for 21 years, they forced him to go to church every Sunday, even when he made it clear to them that he didn't want to. He feels entirely judged and disapproved of by his entire family and it makes him so uncomfortable around them that he'd rather only see them once every 3 years now. And I have friends who keep trying to convince me that I'm never going to be truly happy without God in my life, just because they feel they never were. But I think I'm pretty happy as is, honestly.

I appreciate the concern, but I think I'd appreciate them having a little more respect for what I believe. I don't ask them not to go to church or insist that they don't believe in God in order to be truly happy, so why can't they just NOT bring it up at all?

I wish everyone could just believe whatever it makes them happy to believe and let everyone else on the planet do the same and not try to change their minds or impose their beliefs on other people's lives. But I guess that's never going to happen.

[dusti_phoenix]

Exactly. I'm square with Jesus and can do my own damn thing, on my own damn time. I don't need to be a faceless being in the middle of a congregation to tell me what I do and do not truly believe. We don't force our views on everyone, so why do they feel the need to negate our lives simply because we are not. like. them. All I'd simply like is that the Christian religion as a whole go back to the damn roots and stop judging and start appreciating what life and its diversity brings us and love what we have in this world instead of telling this person and that exactly why they're apparently going to hell after a harsh judgment.