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My mother is deeply religious, but she won't discuss the specifics of her faith with anyone, including me. She considers it a deeply private matter. Drives me a little crazy, but mostly in awe of her resolve about this. Whatever the opposite of an evangelist is, that's her.
She's about to turn 96 and is super left leaning.
Comment by CaptainCrunch1975 at 24/05/2021 at 13:20 UTC
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Exactly. I think most religious people don't want it shoved down other people's throats either.
Comment by [deleted] at 24/05/2021 at 14:38 UTC
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I follow that mentality.
“I belong to the church of none of your fucking business”
Comment by rbackslashnobody at 24/05/2021 at 17:45 UTC
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I come from a religious family as well, though I am not personally, and it always shocks me how intolerant Reddit is of religion. I think when people comment on posts like this, they imagine their comments are directed at hateful Southern Baptists, but really when they generalize religious people they’re attacking Jews and Muslims and many of the kind old people and relatives in their lives.
Sure some religious people have and continue to do awful things in the name of religion, but suggesting that all religious people can’t read like the comments above do? I just think most people here wouldn’t call an orthodox Jewish man or a woman in a hijab “illiterate” but in mocking all religious people they forget that they are.
Comment by [deleted] at 24/05/2021 at 14:40 UTC
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I plan on being like this to my children with my paganism. If they ask and want to join, sure.
Comment by clanddev at 24/05/2021 at 14:40 UTC
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I am 100% for people who want to have faith in a way that is the exact opposite of evangelicals.
Comment by bakamon1340 at 24/05/2021 at 16:40 UTC
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She’s the exception, not the norm.
Comment by the_crustybastard at 24/05/2021 at 16:47 UTC
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According to the B!ble, Jesus asked certain personally trained individuals to evangelize. He didn't say *any* Christian was qualified or ought to. He also said religion shouldn't be practiced in a way intended to call attention to the practitioner's piety.
I'd suggest your mother is doing Christianity right, (which is not a sentence I've uttered very often.)
Comment by MakeSouthBayGR8Again at 24/05/2021 at 17:27 UTC
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She’s probably a Calvinist.
Comment by SkinnyPeach99 at 24/05/2021 at 19:08 UTC
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This is what I’m planning on doing. My boyfriend and I dream of building our own home with a private room off our bedroom. All our religious items and words will be kept behind that door in a room that our children will never see. It is none of their business, and the religion or lack there of they come to accept will be their business. I can be devout without forcing anything upon anyone else, especially my children.
Comment by [deleted] at 24/05/2021 at 20:45 UTC
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She probably wants to find your faith or lack thereof on your own without her influence.
Comment by jj4211 at 24/05/2021 at 20:59 UTC
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Yep, my take is whatever opinions I may have, I have zero data to be more authoritative than what anyone else sees on their own to inform their faith.
Things that draw a community together are great, but the moment the word of a man is given the authority of a god, bad things happen. Even with good intentions, when you are banking on another human to understand god, well that's more power than a person should have.