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In reply to the discussion: My Mother is Very Religious, and I Am Not [View all]Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)when they use the tenets of their beliefs to try to run my life or to treat me as a lesser person.
My answer to them is always, "You believe in God, but you are not God. It has been and always will be his judgment to make about people(if you are a believer) in the end. I will leave it up to him and so should you. Jesus invoked the Golden Rule. That rule does not give anybody control over anything but themselves. If you want to view the Old Testament as a guide, then you have completely forgotten everything about Jesus except his name."
This is my theological argument with them. I will use it so that I am speaking in their language whether they want to acknowledge it or not.
And don't think that religious squabbles are just between Xtians and everybody else. Get a bunch of devout Catholics, Mormon, and Baptists together and watch the fur fly.
As I stated before, I had no problem with Myrlie Evers-Williams invocation. After all she has been through and done, she could sing "Jesus Loves Me" for all I care. Her faith has led her to be open and accepting. She does not damn people to perdition if they don't believe or believe differently.
If I ever get down to brass tacks with anybody, I tell them that I believe God is a mathematician or possibly a physicist. PI is a symbol and a sacrament to me.