tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267393.post2012247114365879747..comments2023-03-25T08:59:31.730-04:00Comments on <center>Non Sequitur's Soap Box</center>: Religious ProselytizerNonsequiturhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18173868118973875988noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267393.post-77001983845143857602011-01-01T13:53:50.413-05:002011-01-01T13:53:50.413-05:00Wow.
Christianity would be a much better religion...Wow. <br />Christianity would be a much better religion if they kept the part about love and dumped the rest in a ditch somewhere.extracrispynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267393.post-82679282280108882792010-12-18T23:48:53.925-05:002010-12-18T23:48:53.925-05:00BTW... thank you Paul. Your comment somehow slipp...BTW... thank you Paul. Your comment somehow slipped through until now. My blogger notifications are a bit haywire lately.Nonsequiturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173868118973875988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267393.post-60889081246230081812010-12-18T23:44:13.344-05:002010-12-18T23:44:13.344-05:00Dude, I'm really sorry to hear about your expe...Dude, I'm really sorry to hear about your experience also. It happens to a lot of people unfortunately. My advice for you is not happy or easy. I will simply tell you to keep a seed of hope alive for them (and the possibility of them opening their eyes) in the back of your head, but don't plan on it happening and don't base any of your life plans on it. As for the anger and thoughts which won't go away: find your voice if you haven't already. Writing and sharing your experience helps, going into activism and actively speaking out against the attitudes and falsehoods which are the underpinnings of our parents' anti-gay stance can be very helpful both on an external and internal level. It might help you to find literature which deals with these sorts of subjects. I wish you the best of luck with that.Nonsequiturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173868118973875988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267393.post-35132583884972864282010-12-17T17:18:39.625-05:002010-12-17T17:18:39.625-05:00So, I'm finally gonna comment -- your posts ri...So, I'm finally gonna comment -- your posts ring so true and close to my own experience.<br />I already posted something on your blog about a year ago or something. The story with my parents has been quite similar to yours (ex-gay therapy included!), and the outcome is the same. It's been 8 years since I told them I was gay, and it's still a taboo subject and unlikely to change. Although my mom is very loving, she does not want to know anything about this. She's filled with shame, she's made me feel worthless and undeserving (I'm still recovering from that...) and she just can't understand why I would have a problem relating to them shutting down 90% of my life, all the while making sure I know how much she loves me -- words I'm highly sensitive to (My dad doesn't even enter the picture. He's the one that gave her all these ideas about how religion could help...)<br />Hence my anger. It doesn't go away. It peppers my daily experience and when I go to bed at night I'm at least an hour ruminating all this stuff over and over again; it's exhausting, frustrating, infuriating, and although it doesn't help anything, I can't stop thinking about it at will. <br /><br />So yeah. I'm stuck.<br /><br />If you have any kind advice from your own personal experience, I'd love to hear it ;)Tobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17136095183190392340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267393.post-20205420302742982412010-12-03T13:54:13.308-05:002010-12-03T13:54:13.308-05:00So glad you are back Non Sequitur! A very human st...So glad you are back Non Sequitur! A very human story I might add. I woke up as a non believer 13 months ago and I am amazed when I hear the fundy evangelicals do their spiel. How could I have not seen completely through it sooner?<br />Keep doing the work you need to do to be healthy, and best wishes!Paul Douglasnoreply@blogger.com