I MET HER ONLINE, the way folks often do nowadays, on a dating site. she started the friendship. i never do. i always figure the woman is gonna be in control anyway, so why bother.
she was about my age, attractive, devout conservative christian catholic, and evidently quite interested in meeting her second soulmate.
she had long been divorced, with a fine family, grown children, and a great social life within the church.
like everybody else, she writes books; books about virtues, directed at children. good for her. presumably, among the virtues she advocates are tolerance and acceptance and respect for others; real tolerance and acceptance and respect for others, not the patronizing, condescending kind.
"he's a great guy, and i care about him, and i pray he will come to accept the truth" just don't cut it. we must tolerate, accept, and respect people for what they are, not for what we would like them to be.
ONE DAY SHE CALLED ME and expressed great enthusiasm about our future relationship, but was concerned about just one thing, and wanted to clear it up.
Red Flag a raising, i explained to her that i am a pantheist, that i believe in "god", that i believe the bible was written by several dozen human beings, and that jesus was a beautiful human being who was murdered by typical senseless human savagery.
trying desperately to please her, i reiterated my love of god and jesus, respect for the christian faith, and willingness to go to church with her with a good attitude.
she seemed satisfied; apparently i had passed the test, for soon thereafter she invited me to drive four hundred miles to attend a church dance with her.
i was thrilled. i loved her christian values, and i loved her apparent open mindedness about my religiosity.
it turned out she was hearing what she wanted to hear. she kept coming on to me, strong.
i remained a bit worried. had she really understood how different our religious beliefs are, and would she really accept mine, as i would easily accept hers? hell, i have spent my entire life around christians, i had damned well better accept and respect them, and i do, because i want to be open minded ; i want to be accepted.
i brought the matter up again. evidently what i said to her sank in this time, and she came to her senses, because she dumped me like yesterday's cat litter.
we had the traditional break up spat, during which i reminded her that i had been open about my religiosity from the start, and that i saw no reason why we couldn't date, so long as we respected each other, and didn't try to change each other.
she proclaimed her respect for me, her open mindedness, her sincere hope that i come to see the light, and accept the true faith, and her unwillingness to date anybody who does not accept the truth faith.
its amazing how people can think themselves open minded and respectful, while in fact being
arrogant, condescending, and judgmental.
she said she'd pray for me. i replied that she might wish to pray for herself first.
Bb
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