Reply #40: When I Got Remarried...

[WiffenPoof]

I married into a religious family...born again Christians. My new wife is pretty open minded, a dem, but still quite religious.

My step-daughter is in her mid-twenties and is home-schooling her two young children. Over the past five years that I have known her, we would have debates over religion. Sometimes they would get pretty heated...but we always knew when to stop. As an Agnostic, I think I'm somewhat a mystery to her.

Anyway, during one of our discussions where we were speaking of politics and religion I asked her if she felt that our country would be better off if the government were religiously based. To my amazement, she said yes. OMG...I didn't know what to say at first. I reminded her that religious governments are governments like Iran, etc. etc. That didn't seem to phase her. She said something to the effect that they are evil because they are not Christian. I could tell that I was digging myself a hole here. But I continued. You do realize, I said, that we have many religions in this country and that having just one of them dictating what our government does is problematic. Still, she made the point that a Christian government would be a vast improvement over what we have now. I began to think that this wasn't going to turn out well...so, I stopped.

I have never had another discussion with her again about any aspect of religion. I sort of felt that if she really believed a "religious government" was the best government, I had no hope of convincing her otherwise.

*sigh*

-PLA