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Jun. 24th, 2006 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mynewplacedammit! The photo insert button is gone!
Oh well. I have much worse things on my mind.
Apparently my parents Baptist pastor has gone on the offensive regarding The DaVinci Code, passing out books that tell all the ways that it's wrong and sinful. My daughter told me this morning that her grandfather (my stepdad) had a 'talk' with her this week. Told her that believing Jesus was married meant she believed He wasn't holy. (and I'm hearing in my head "Because after all, sex is a dirty sin!") I asked her if he told her that I was going to hell, and she said no. But she then proceeded to tell me that he DID tell her that she would be 'left behind' during the rapture, and have to stay here with all those people who didn't believe, instead of going to heaven.
I explained to her that she and I still believed that Jesus was the Son of God, that He died for our sins, and rose again three days later, and ascended into Heaven. And that because we believed that, Jesus said we were going to Heaven. That believing Jesus was married didn't make Him a sinner, because sex isn't sinful. After all, God created sex, not just for reproduction, but to provide bonding between a man and a woman, and to provide a hint of what His Love for us was like.
I'm not sure how much of it got through. But I'll bring it up again this weekend, probably more than once.
The thing that gripes my ass most about this is it means I'm going to have to sit both my parents down and have a serious talk with them. They're pulling down my authority, and putting their own in it's place. And i won't stand for it, dammit. I WON'T! They're destroying her peace of mind, much as my own was destroyed by movies like A Thief In The Night and a couple others I saw as a child. Yes, my mother and stepdad made me watch this movie in a darkened church with the rest of our congregation, when I was about eight or nine. I had nightmares into my twenties, so they served their purpose, I guess.
This is a great description of the effect of the movie: http://www.jesus21.com/content/movies/rapture1.html
God. I have a headache.
Oh well. I have much worse things on my mind.
Apparently my parents Baptist pastor has gone on the offensive regarding The DaVinci Code, passing out books that tell all the ways that it's wrong and sinful. My daughter told me this morning that her grandfather (my stepdad) had a 'talk' with her this week. Told her that believing Jesus was married meant she believed He wasn't holy. (and I'm hearing in my head "Because after all, sex is a dirty sin!") I asked her if he told her that I was going to hell, and she said no. But she then proceeded to tell me that he DID tell her that she would be 'left behind' during the rapture, and have to stay here with all those people who didn't believe, instead of going to heaven.
I explained to her that she and I still believed that Jesus was the Son of God, that He died for our sins, and rose again three days later, and ascended into Heaven. And that because we believed that, Jesus said we were going to Heaven. That believing Jesus was married didn't make Him a sinner, because sex isn't sinful. After all, God created sex, not just for reproduction, but to provide bonding between a man and a woman, and to provide a hint of what His Love for us was like.
I'm not sure how much of it got through. But I'll bring it up again this weekend, probably more than once.
The thing that gripes my ass most about this is it means I'm going to have to sit both my parents down and have a serious talk with them. They're pulling down my authority, and putting their own in it's place. And i won't stand for it, dammit. I WON'T! They're destroying her peace of mind, much as my own was destroyed by movies like A Thief In The Night and a couple others I saw as a child. Yes, my mother and stepdad made me watch this movie in a darkened church with the rest of our congregation, when I was about eight or nine. I had nightmares into my twenties, so they served their purpose, I guess.
This is a great description of the effect of the movie: http://www.jesus21.com/content/movies/rapture1.html
God. I have a headache.
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Date: 2006-06-24 03:01 pm (UTC)Wow. What a great line....
Well then, I am for sure going to hell, because I am a Unitarian Universalist!
(But then, as a UU, I don't believe in hell, so where does that leave me? ;) )
*hugs you, girl*
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Date: 2006-06-24 03:18 pm (UTC)And I SO Appreciate the compliment! (as well as the hug) I read "The Divine Romance", by Gene Edwards, and was transformed for a moment. I read it long before The DaVinci Code ever came along, it was the FIRST book that made me grasp some of the depth of God's love. I think that's how the thought came to be formed in my mind.
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Date: 2006-06-24 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-06-24 07:17 pm (UTC)Yes, you must indeed assert yourself in this situation. There is no doubt of it. You must insist on being respected as a parent.
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Date: 2006-06-24 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-24 07:51 pm (UTC)Gotta admit, they're pretty darned good if one is selling mere fire insurance.
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Date: 2006-06-24 09:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-24 10:05 pm (UTC)Hugs Hun ,I think you handled that very well with Scarlet.
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Date: 2006-06-24 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-25 03:54 am (UTC)Now I expect nothing from her.
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