Do you have American God-fearing in-laws?
Dec 21st 2007, 10:03 pm
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Re: Do you have American God-fearing in-laws?
Stupid, stupid barbaric practice.
Okay. Ends threadjack!
Dec 21st 2007, 10:04 pm
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Re: Do you have American God-fearing in-laws?
Again, not debating. I think it's done a lot in the US for other than religious reasons - was thought more hygenic, and just became something most/many did.
Dec 21st 2007, 10:05 pm
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Dec 21st 2007, 10:09 pm
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Re: Do you have American God-fearing in-laws?
We live in the south, with a church on every corner and the biggest load of hypocrites I've ever seen ... bleh!
Dec 21st 2007, 10:14 pm
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Dec 21st 2007, 10:18 pm
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Re: Do you have American God-fearing in-laws?
I know it's close to Christmas, but...
Do you have American God-fearing in-laws, who have never stepped outside of America, mentally or physically?
Hitherto, my US wife has lived and experienced Britain for about three years, and is quite open-minded about our secular Brit views on religion and the fact that only about 16% of our indigenous Christian population attend church as opposed to about 57% in the United States.:
Do you have American God-fearing in-laws, who have never stepped outside of America, mentally or physically?
Hitherto, my US wife has lived and experienced Britain for about three years, and is quite open-minded about our secular Brit views on religion and the fact that only about 16% of our indigenous Christian population attend church as opposed to about 57% in the United States.:
I am sure that most Brits I know, if asked, would say "Christian" in a sort of unthinking, "well that's what my parents were" kind of way, but if asked about Darwinism, or how come all those billions of Hindu's have got it wrong about God or those Jews are wrong about Jesus (and on) would probably find all of their real beliefs falling into the secular bin.
Anyway, hijack over, I pity you having to put up with that.
Dec 21st 2007, 10:23 pm
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Re: Do you have American God-fearing in-laws?
Hopefully, I'll be a USer soon. I don't know who I'll vote for.
I was born ultra-conservative, and grew up liking Thatcher, Reagan etc.
I couldn't stand the sheep at college with their right-on, leftie politics, their uniform non-conformist uniforms...
But as I've got older - and at odds with Churchill's observation about not being a conservative in your 40s (I'm 34) - I've found myself becoming somewhat more liberal.
Anyway, where am I going with this? Ah yes, I don't know if there is an invisible sky wizard or not, but I would like to see a presidential candidate respond to the question of their religion with the following: "I wont answer that. Faith and belief are personal matters."
Not making much sense. Tired. Watching the snow falling out the window.
Lovely. Maybe there is a God. It's certainly very beautiful.
I was born ultra-conservative, and grew up liking Thatcher, Reagan etc.
I couldn't stand the sheep at college with their right-on, leftie politics, their uniform non-conformist uniforms...
But as I've got older - and at odds with Churchill's observation about not being a conservative in your 40s (I'm 34) - I've found myself becoming somewhat more liberal.
Anyway, where am I going with this? Ah yes, I don't know if there is an invisible sky wizard or not, but I would like to see a presidential candidate respond to the question of their religion with the following: "I wont answer that. Faith and belief are personal matters."
Not making much sense. Tired. Watching the snow falling out the window.
Lovely. Maybe there is a God. It's certainly very beautiful.
Dec 21st 2007, 10:23 pm
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Re: Do you have American God-fearing in-laws?
Confront the literal word freaks with this:
In Isaiah are words 'spoken by God' along the lines of:
"I the Lord God created heaven and earth
I the Lord God created light and darkness
I the Lord God created good and evil
I the Lord God created all these things"
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Dec 21st 2007, 10:27 pm
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Dec 21st 2007, 11:24 pm
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Dec 22nd 2007, 12:36 am
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Re: Do you have American God-fearing in-laws?
I know it's close to Christmas, but...
Do you have American God-fearing in-laws, who have never stepped outside of America, mentally or physically?
Hitherto, my US wife has lived and experienced Britain for about three years, and is quite open-minded about our secular Brit views on religion and the fact that only about 16% of our indigenous Christian population attend church as opposed to about 57% in the United States.
Although my wife is currently in the States her mother is pissed off with her daughter - my wife - because these days my wife won't freely attend church in the States anymore (she's Southern Baptist). The mother-in-law is now posting me bloody Web-congesting 'forwards' about the stance of God in God's everyday social and domestic circles in the United States.
Moreover, she recently sent me an email, 'lamenting' that her daughter will never again find peace and happiness unless she 'reunites with God' (my wife is quite happy, thank you). Underlying is written her resentment towards British secular-minded attitudes and, I suspect, an hostility (albeit guarded) aimed at the fact that I am not a practicing 'God-fearing' individual (why 'fear' what you're supposed to be a part of anyhow? Beats me).
My adult wife, fortunately, does possess a mind of her own. She decides for herself on all issues pertaining to life and spirit. But to what extent are US in-laws religious attitudes directed at we secular Brit guys who marry their daughters, and indeed, our women who marry their sons?
In my case I think I am being hammered for leading one US daughter 'astray'.
Well, yeahhh!!! ...
Do you have American God-fearing in-laws, who have never stepped outside of America, mentally or physically?
Hitherto, my US wife has lived and experienced Britain for about three years, and is quite open-minded about our secular Brit views on religion and the fact that only about 16% of our indigenous Christian population attend church as opposed to about 57% in the United States.
Although my wife is currently in the States her mother is pissed off with her daughter - my wife - because these days my wife won't freely attend church in the States anymore (she's Southern Baptist). The mother-in-law is now posting me bloody Web-congesting 'forwards' about the stance of God in God's everyday social and domestic circles in the United States.
Moreover, she recently sent me an email, 'lamenting' that her daughter will never again find peace and happiness unless she 'reunites with God' (my wife is quite happy, thank you). Underlying is written her resentment towards British secular-minded attitudes and, I suspect, an hostility (albeit guarded) aimed at the fact that I am not a practicing 'God-fearing' individual (why 'fear' what you're supposed to be a part of anyhow? Beats me).
My adult wife, fortunately, does possess a mind of her own. She decides for herself on all issues pertaining to life and spirit. But to what extent are US in-laws religious attitudes directed at we secular Brit guys who marry their daughters, and indeed, our women who marry their sons?
In my case I think I am being hammered for leading one US daughter 'astray'.
Well, yeahhh!!! ...
She has come to this conclusion on her own as I have always been happy for her to hold religious beliefs if they made her feel happy and secure. So, IT IS NOT ME!!! is what I am saying. Oh dear. Tell that to the monster in law. i am one of satans happy little helpers apparently. She now hates me so much that she no longer even bothers to send me those stupid email forwards or even the stupid ones about immigration and/or islam. (Which is f cukng great!!!) The thing is, the woman is the least christian person I have ever met, she is mean spirited, cruel to everybody, has no friends, half her family wont speak to her and then she blames this on god punishing her for whatever reason. Probably, IMO, for beating her kids with wooden spoons but who am I to say.
Dec 22nd 2007, 12:44 am
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Re: Do you have American God-fearing in-laws?