110% Done With Religion.

[sweets]

I've tried my best over the months to find some kind of silver lining. Last year was a terrible year for me since I made that decision to come out to my mother about me being an atheist and bisexual. It was a terrible year last year.

 

Like I said, I tried my best to find the silver lining with religion. I've tried to defend it in a positive ways, how there is some positive stuff that comes with religion. I've tried so hard to just find good things and I thought I would be able to keep it up until tonight when I was cleaning up the kitchen. My mother just seem to just get so mad about something, well, I wouldn't say mad, but just watching all those religious channels and like she just came up to me when I was cleaning up telling me how I don't say my prayers before bed, don't say my prayers before I eat, don't say my prayers in the morning, don't read my bible. Then she tells me how God won't give me the things I want out of life, how things will only appear as if things are going good when they aren't. Like I'm just done of it.

 

Then she comes and says how she's going to stop doing this, doing that, unless I start saying my prayers and reading my bible. Lol, fine. I'll play along. This isn't the first time I had to play along and have this double life in a way. All I know is that I don't want the same shit to happen this year, all the fights over it, I'm done. I'll play along cause like I said, isn't the first time I had to do this.

 

I didn't even bother opening my mouth, I know doing that will only lead to how things was before. I love my mother and all, don't get me wrong but shit. I would be so much happier if she didn't treat religion like DNA. If she would just keep religion to herself and stop waving it around all over the place.

 

I don't care if other people believe in religion, just for myself personally, I'm not fucking with that anymore, I'm not going to try and defend this anymore.

[Travi]

Like the old saying goes: Religion is like a penis. It's fine to have one, and be proud of it. But whipping it out and waving it around causes problems.



Or something like that.

[amateur]

Wow, you and your mom both had a horrible year last year with you coming out as an atheist and bisexual.  I'm sorry you've gone through this and I'm sorry for how hard it's been.  I have no idea if I were you and my mother said those things about my not praying resulting in god not giving me what I want out of life -- that's not even biblical.  There's no logic in it whatsoever.  I wouldn't know what to say so I'd probably say nothing, but it would drive me nuts.

 

I hope you can keep it together enough to get through living in the same house with her.

 

It does sound like a stressful situation; I'm very sorry.  Feel free to vent here when you need to.

[Eugene39]

I'm sorry to read this, Sweets. Dealing with religious people who have a major case of denial is rough. Otherwise, I hope you're doing well. 

[RedStar]

That's very manipulative of her, I'm sorry you're having to deal with that kind of behaviour.

[BeauCat]

My mother used to do this stuff...not necessarily in connection with religion, but making threats. She is bipolar and can be verbally abusive, I've found the BEST solution is to make jokes and laugh. The more light-hearted you react, the better.

 

Oh, God is going to make it seem like good things will happen to me, but really it's destruction? "That's awfully kind of God to make a bad situation bearable! *laugh*"

 

I'm not saying prayers and that's bad? "Not true, I am constantly praying for pizza. I'm praying for pizza right. now."

 

Not reading the Bible. "You don't see me because I read it at night. I read it for the articles, not the nudity and sex scenes- I swear!"

 

I know I've won when my mother's angry face starts to break and she giggles. Yes, she'll still chide me, but humor is such an amazing weapon against anger.