Reply To: Ladies' Night!

[SteveInCO]

Judi S. wrote:

Belle, thanks for the topic. I’ve been married for over 40 years to a staunch Christian. He steadily became more and more righteous, programmed weekly by a Missouri Synod Lutheran pastor and congregation. I am very turned off physically by my husband because of his close minded beliefs about “discipline children”, “abomination of gays”, his belief that he is the “spiritual leader” of the family. When I married him we were partners, no longer.
I feel, I believe I have lost a good friend. I grieve that his religion is so much more important to him than his family.

I don’t believe I would ever spend time with another religious person, friend. I can not express myself around them because they are so convinced of their righteousness and superior knowledge of the bible.

I can’t blame you in the slightest. I ended my last significant relationship (four years ago) because she turned out to be religious, in spite of telling me she wasn’t religious. SHe was complaining more and more about atheists “attacks” on Christians as time went on. (And that was before I myself became somewhat more aware of church-state issues, she wasn’t complaining about me. I don’t think so, anyway.)

I had forgotten that a lot of religious people don’t consider their religion to be a “religion,” they avoid that word, thinking it means ceremony and belonging to a big organized church, and insist on describing themselves as “faithful” or “spiritual”