Well I'll keep this story short.
I grew up in a very religious family and decided for myself to leave the faith. Years later I found like others that life can have hardships. I was in the middle of one when it seems the whole church I had belonged to and family members were contacting me stating that my bad luck was Jesus procecuting me for leaving the faith. I would say back to them, but it is the religious people that are doing this to me, you know the Jesus people. Why would the Jesus people of love pull such awful nasty, rude, illegal, deceptive things to me? Is this what Jesus is about, I said? One person who just happened to be my brother would just laugh at me and tell me it was all my fault for leaving the church and that I deserved everything I got. Well as Karma would have it, a year later he went through the same thing himself. I didn't say anything to him, but I sure felt like saying, "Maybe you weren't a GOOD ENOUGH christian, eh? Maybe Jesus is punishing you."
That's what you get for judging other people.
Oh well, I left out a lot of detail, but oh well point made, I think.
Thanks for the story debbie. Your former Christian group seems much more vitriolic than mine, though I wasn't exempt entirely from negativity when I left.
Anyway, as a follow-up to this, my reply:
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"Hey buddy. I had seen the story before, though not in that exact form. Einstein, it seems, is a popular figure for use in such stories:
http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp
But in any case, I hope all's well with you and {omitted}. I think it's been since {} last year that I saw you last, when we watched a game after {}. If you're ever in town with some time on your hands, drop me a line and we'll hang out.
Peace!
-{}"
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...with certain omissions for privacy purposes.
I couldn't resist using Adam_PoE's link about the story. It was just too delicious not to use, though I did try to stay as respectful as possible.
when i was 5 or 6 yrs old my grandpa woke me in the middle of the night so he could talk to me. he told me he loved me and he would always be there for me and watch over me. i smiled gave him a hug and he told me to go back to sleep, so i did.
woke up next morning being hyperactive out of my room screaming about where was grandpa that i was happy he had come to visit us.. everyone was in the living room crying and i upset ppl b/c i told them grandpa woke me to say hi when he had arrived at night.
more ppl started crying and others were upset with me and very angry with what i had said. turned out my grandpa had passed away that same night thousand miles away from where we lived.
i got another good story.
Originally posted by Deja~vui was also bit in the face by my wolf/dog and had to get stitches you and i have so much in common.. wanna get married ? maybe its fate unless u got hideously scarred and ur ugly and have no soul. 🙂
When I was 12 I was bit on the face by a dog and got stiches. I was told that god did it cause I was a bad girl. Why would god do that? 😑Oh, now I understand. god = dog?
I want you to imagine something. Imagine your parents told you that you were degenerate and disgusting. Imagine how you would feel if they told this to you and you might have a close approximation to how I feel right now. My hyperreligious bullshit parents believe I am some kind of degenerate loser because the content of my original writing is “gritty” and sometimes outright gross.
Therefore, my religious anecdote for today is a half an hour phone argument with my loser parents and their goddamn bullshit Christianity. I'm a f*cking 20 year old man and I get treated like some degenerate kid. Oh and my mom sent me the email below.
I just wish you would gravitate to the good things in life--not the ugly. Because it is out there, doesn't mean you have to embrace the darkness and perpetuate it. Because the world contains evil, mean people, shouldn't mean you find the thrust to promote it. There is just as much good as there is evil. They both exist. Those who choose to dwell on the terrible things of the world, absorb and emulate it in their lives and it is revealed in what they produce. Those who embrace the life-filled, good, living things of earth will find them selves spreading the peace and love we all need.
Apparently, because my writing has ugly elements to it, because I try to write about some of the uglier aspects of human nature, because they are there… I am promoting EVIL in the world and apparently I also emulate it in my life.
F*cking bullshit.
Originally posted by Autokrat
I want you to imagine something. Imagine your parents told you that you were degenerate and disgusting. Imagine how you would feel if they told this to you and you might have a close approximation to how I feel right now. My hyperreligious bullshit parents believe I am some kind of degenerate loser because the content of my original writing is “gritty” and sometimes outright gross.Therefore, my religious anecdote for today is a half an hour phone argument with my loser parents and their goddamn bullshit Christianity. I'm a f*cking 20 year old man and I get treated like some degenerate kid. Oh and my mom sent me the email below.
Apparently, because my writing has ugly elements to it, because I try to write about some of the uglier aspects of human nature, because they are there… I am promoting EVIL in the world and apparently I also emulate it in my life.
F*cking bullshit.
Originally posted by King Kandy
Why do you care, you're 20 so you're emancipated... what are they going to cut your life line if you don't stop writing "edgy" stories?
They pay for school and help me out with a lot of other stuff. Economically I'd find it very difficult to continue without their support.