how has the family worked it out between themselves, and the non-practicing family member?
Cindy, there's practically nothing in common between each case - it varies depending on the people involved, the relationships already in place, and so forth. The emotions can run all the way from "whatever makes you happy", through "as long as you are still a good person", until deep heart-break and emotional damage. And the actual deeds and results vary even more.
not being an atheist, or at least an agnostic, would be the thing I would have to tell/not tell.
The paragraph above, by the way, holds just as much for the reverse process (in starting practicing Judaism), as well.
In point of fact the Puritans, at least some of whom where the ideological ancestors of the Christian right, came to this country in part to escape the British practice of Christmas.
And because they were such pains-in-the-asses that it was heavily implied they get the hell out or they will learn what it really was to be persecuted...
Oddly that part gets left out at thanksgiving, too.
Much sympathy to Billytea.
Timelies,
My condolences to billytea.
Oddly that part gets left out at thanksgiving, too.
Not odd at all. They're family. One always tries to gloss over family weirdness during the holidays.
And because they were such pains-in-the-asses that it was heavily implied they get the hell out or they will learn what it really was to be persecuted...
Speaking as a liberal American Buffista, we'd better hope with all our might that nobody ever starts trying to persecute people for being pains in the ass. ijs...
Good Morning!
I woke up to a beautifully sunny vacation day and almost 8 inches of snow! Lovely.
I will not look at my school bag full of papers to grade and exams to write.
Kristin, you have snow to look at, why would you ever choose to look at your school bag instead?
Because sunlight on snow can cause piercing pain if you stare at it too long?
We've got about one inch of snow here.
I was supposed to go back to DC today, but I'm still feeling kind of sick, so I'm waiting until tomorrow.
I just checked my grades online. I got an A in both classes that have grades posted so far. The third professor hasn't posted grades yet, but I'm pretty sure I got a B.
