Once upon a time, the father of my current partner and mother of my child sent me a book about the Soviet Union, the US, the Pope, and a Satanic conspiracy to end the world. It was called Keys of This Blood, by Malachi Martin. Perhaps if I'd come across the book while there was still a Soviet Union to consider, I would have taken it more seriously. But it was an awful book.
Well he's in town, attending to the expected expansion of the family, and Tig is keeping me separated from that process (fair enough). However, she was trying to explain something to her father about the baby's future, and religion was part of the stake.
So he made her an offer to convey to me.
He will abandon his faith (SDA) and give me $1,000 if I can prove that the Christian sabbath is appropriately not Saturday.
I'm hoping desperately that the terms of the issue have been conveyed to me incorrectly. On the one hand, such is an expected result when Tig tells me these things. To the other is the fact that I don't contest the Sabbatarian aspect of Seventh-Day Adventism; even the witches' sabbat is Saturday.
But what does that really have to do with anything? What I'm actually preparing for in these terms will be attempts to baptize my child into Christianity. I could care less what day one goes to church; I think the whole thing is detrimental.
But this is a common thing to me. I would ask the questions as such:
• Why is it that Christians will stake faith on irrelevant issues? (e.g. the day of the Sabbath is among the least important considerations.)
• Would an evangelical Christian accept it if I initiated their child into witchcraft against their will?
• Would an evangelical Christian feel secure if I targeted their child for conversion and initiation into a different religion?
But I'm insulted. What in heaven's name could make that man think the Sabbath is an issue? Is this really where his head is at?
And it's stuff like this that makes me worry even more about his religion: What is the relationship between the religious paradigm and the immediate perspective?
And as I look out to the future, and envision my daughter's future life, it makes me wish there was definitively something to pray to that she won't be so wrongly and obsessively focused. But in the meantime, the stake is too high to fritter my efforts away on supplication.
I mean, these people are planning to move five-hundred miles north of their current home in order to attend to this child. I applaud their devotion but question their intent. Tig doesn't trust them any farther than she can throw them (maybe a foot and a half), but it's hard to tell how much of that is paranoia. But for all they want to do for their daughter and granddaughter--and, by proxy, me--I will not permit them this degree of interference. Quite literally, a man is allegedly preparing to undertake a process that he would not, as a parent, have accepted of anyone.
I find that interesting. But he's going to have to answer for that at some point, and sack issues of the Sabbath.
But I find his invitation to a snipe-hunt somewhat ridiculous and insulting.
And, having vented, I'll leave it at that for now.
thanx,
Tiassa
Well he's in town, attending to the expected expansion of the family, and Tig is keeping me separated from that process (fair enough). However, she was trying to explain something to her father about the baby's future, and religion was part of the stake.
So he made her an offer to convey to me.
He will abandon his faith (SDA) and give me $1,000 if I can prove that the Christian sabbath is appropriately not Saturday.
I'm hoping desperately that the terms of the issue have been conveyed to me incorrectly. On the one hand, such is an expected result when Tig tells me these things. To the other is the fact that I don't contest the Sabbatarian aspect of Seventh-Day Adventism; even the witches' sabbat is Saturday.
But what does that really have to do with anything? What I'm actually preparing for in these terms will be attempts to baptize my child into Christianity. I could care less what day one goes to church; I think the whole thing is detrimental.
But this is a common thing to me. I would ask the questions as such:
• Why is it that Christians will stake faith on irrelevant issues? (e.g. the day of the Sabbath is among the least important considerations.)
• Would an evangelical Christian accept it if I initiated their child into witchcraft against their will?
• Would an evangelical Christian feel secure if I targeted their child for conversion and initiation into a different religion?
But I'm insulted. What in heaven's name could make that man think the Sabbath is an issue? Is this really where his head is at?
And it's stuff like this that makes me worry even more about his religion: What is the relationship between the religious paradigm and the immediate perspective?
And as I look out to the future, and envision my daughter's future life, it makes me wish there was definitively something to pray to that she won't be so wrongly and obsessively focused. But in the meantime, the stake is too high to fritter my efforts away on supplication.
I mean, these people are planning to move five-hundred miles north of their current home in order to attend to this child. I applaud their devotion but question their intent. Tig doesn't trust them any farther than she can throw them (maybe a foot and a half), but it's hard to tell how much of that is paranoia. But for all they want to do for their daughter and granddaughter--and, by proxy, me--I will not permit them this degree of interference. Quite literally, a man is allegedly preparing to undertake a process that he would not, as a parent, have accepted of anyone.
I find that interesting. But he's going to have to answer for that at some point, and sack issues of the Sabbath.
But I find his invitation to a snipe-hunt somewhat ridiculous and insulting.
And, having vented, I'll leave it at that for now.
thanx,
Tiassa