A fundie's guide for how to guilt-trip your non-fundie GROWN children into becoming fundie again November 19, 2016 | Registered: 12 years ago Posts: 263 |
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If your daughter rejects Jesus, don’t pretend everything is fine. For every unbelieving child, the details will be different. Each one will require parents to reach out in unique ways. Never acceptable, however, is not reaching out at all. If your child is an unbeliever, don’t ignore it. Holidays might be easier, but eternity won’t be.
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If he hasn’t been around for a week and a half because he’s been staying at his girlfriend’s—or boyfriend’s—apartment, plead with him not to go back, and let him come home.
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Be gentle in your disappointment.
What really concerns you is that your child is destroying herself, not that she’s breaking rules. Treat her in a way that makes this clear. She probably knows—especially if she was raised as a Christian—that what she’s doing is wrong. And she definitely knows you think it is. So she doesn’t need this pointed out. She needs to see how you are going to react to her evil. Your gentle forbearance and sorrowful hope will show her that you really do trust Jesus.
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If your wayward son lives far away, try to find a solid believer in his area and ask him to contact your son. This may seem nosy or stupid or embarrassing to him, but it’s worth it—especially if the believer you find can also relate to your son emotionally in a way you can’t.
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Relational distance will also be a side effect of your child leaving the faith, so your relationship will be tenuous and should be protected if at all possible. But hard rebuke is still necessary.
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When you read something in the Bible that encourages you and helps you love Jesus more, write it up in a couple lines and send it to your child. The best exhortation for them is positive examples of Christ’s joy in your own life. Don’t stress out when you’re composing these as if each one needs to be singularly powerful. Just whip them out one after another, and let the cumulative effect of your satisfaction in God gather up in your child’s inbox. God’s word is never proclaimed in vain.
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And not only is he the only point—he’s the only hope. When they see the wonder of Jesus, satisfaction will be redefined. He will replace the pathetic vanity of the money, or the praise of man, or the high, or the orgasm that they are staking their eternities on right now. Only his grace can draw them from their perilous pursuits and bind them safely to himself—captive, but satisfied.
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electricfire
Or here's a thought, fundie parents. Mind your own goddamn business and be grateful your kid isn't molesting children - not that you'd do a fucking thing about that anyway (I'm lookin' at ya, Duggars!), or hooked on drugs - although growing up in your household, it would amaze me to no end if they didn't start shooting chemicals into their veins, or just being horrible people... y'know... kind of like you. Yes, we see through your bullshit. We know at the time you wrote this piece of garbage, your spouse was fucking someone else. Your daughter just found out she's pregnant and doesn't even know the name of the random asshole she hooked up with while drunk at that party she snuck off to the night she told you she was going to Bible Study. Your eldest son is dealing coke out of the home he shares with his pregnant wife and two children, and your youngest son has just discovered hardcore porn, and then there's the subject of your abortion.
It's no wonder why Junior stopped believing.
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electricfire
We know at the time you wrote this piece of garbage, your spouse was fucking someone else. Your daughter just found out she's pregnant and doesn't even know the name of the random asshole she hooked up with while drunk at that party she snuck off to the night she told you she was going to Bible Study. Your eldest son is dealing coke out of the home he shares with his pregnant wife and two children, and your youngest son has just discovered hardcore porn, and then there's the subject of your abortion.
It's no wonder why Junior stopped believing.
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starbelly
It seems to me that fundies and conservatives think that humans are, at the root, inherently evil. They need the framework of religion to hold them fast to goodness or they will spin out of control doing and being evil. They need the structure of society to dictate how to operate within the community, and without this framework, they will do bad things to bad people.
I think liberals and non-evangelicals believe that people are inherently good. Structured society arose from the work of good people doing good things. Left to their own devices, people will naturally practice the golden rule.
In reality, I bet it's about 50/50. Those fundies that need religion are inherently bad people, and those of us that refute it as prescriptive drivel are inherently good people.
There.
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paragon schnitzophonic
Proof that breeders don't realize that the humans they created aren't puppets or programmable clones, but people with free will and individual brains who will grow up to be their own people.