Thank you for responding. And I see your point about your own family exactly.
But it really would better - for them and for the people around us - if they didn't hold those beliefs. And they aren't going to change their minds (I can tell you this for sure) just by being told they're wrong. I don't think they're going to change their minds without *some* suggestion that it might be best if they looked at things another way.
And I think it's often the case that this kind of suggestion comes more easily from within the family, rather than from an outsider. I mean, I can "suggest" till I'm blue in the face, but if I don't do it in a respectful way, I'm going to get my hat handed to me, and rightly so.
I can guaran-damn-tee you that not a single Southern evangelical Christian of my acquaintance has thought of it the way you've expressed it to me. And I think that you having said that is going to change how I say things to people.
Well, then my work here is done ;-> But seriously, that's the best thing you could have said. And feel free to trot this point of view out, if ever you need it. The post is unlocked for a reason.
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But it really would better - for them and for the people around us - if they didn't hold those beliefs. And they aren't going to change their minds (I can tell you this for sure) just by being told they're wrong. I don't think they're going to change their minds without *some* suggestion that it might be best if they looked at things another way.
And I think it's often the case that this kind of suggestion comes more easily from within the family, rather than from an outsider. I mean, I can "suggest" till I'm blue in the face, but if I don't do it in a respectful way, I'm going to get my hat handed to me, and rightly so.
I can guaran-damn-tee you that not a single Southern evangelical Christian of my acquaintance has thought of it the way you've expressed it to me. And I think that you having said that is going to change how I say things to people.
Well, then my work here is done ;-> But seriously, that's the best thing you could have said. And feel free to trot this point of view out, if ever you need it. The post is unlocked for a reason.