28 Reasons I’m DONE Talking To Most Of My Conservative Friends And Family Members

[Quixote1818]

By Tiffany Willis

1. You support revisionist history.

When I was in a high school history class, I’ll never forget one thing our teacher taught us: what you read in history books isn’t always accurate. The example she used was history books in the Soviet Union, now known as Russia. She informed us, to my shock and horror, that the Soviets pretty much included what they liked in the history books and left out everything else. As a result, she said, there were generations of Russian students who were misinformed.

Oh we were dismayed, my classmates and I! Those poor little Russian kids who were being taught false history. But wait….you guys on the right are trying to do the same thing right here in the Good Old U.S.A.

Last year, I wrote an article about Texas’ plan to revise history and include Moses as a Founding Father. When I shared the article with an educated Texas adult and asked “is this OK with you,” his response was:

“Why teach our children at length regarding the horrors of slavery as we have eliminated that curse from our society? We don’t deny it occurred here or anywhere else in the world, but, why dwell on a segment of our past that has been corrected? I don’t think it is appropriate to drag our dirty laundry through our history lessons at length.”

Because it’s HISTORY. You don’t get to just rewrite history books if it’s unpleasant. What are you thinking? Shall we rewrite the Revolutionary War? “A minor disagreement with Great Britain.” How about the bombing of Pearl Harbor? “A spat with the Japanese.”

2. You cite Jesus as your reasoning for rejecting marriage equality.

Yet the Bible only mentions homosexuality six times. Six. Times. 6. This many:

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So why is this one of the biggest issues on your agenda? Why are you putting so much energy and hate into an issue that clearly wasn’t one of God’s major concerns?

As Christians who are pro-family, why would you deny people the right to the sanctity of marriage? If marriage strengthens families, why would you not want everyone to have this, even if you disagree with their choice of mate?

YOU (we) have destroyed the sanctity of marriage. There is no possible way that gay marriage can do more harm to marriage than heterosexuals have done. Yet we seldom hear a sermon bemoaning the divorce rate or people living together before marriage. Why is that? Because the pews would be empty.

3. You use Biblical scripture to excuse yourself from feeding the hungry.

There is nothing you do that makes me more disgusted with you than your abuse and misuse of 2 Thessalonians 3:10.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat. 2 Thessalonians 3:10

You are deliberately taking the scripture — ONE VERSE! — out of context when you use them to justify your own hatred of poor people. And again, you’re showing your ignorance.

From Liberal America reader Eric Susee: “2 Thessalonians 3:10. are NOT the words of Christ. They are the words of Paul of Tarsus, a man who never met Christ.”

Biblical scholars have pointed out that the author of 2 Thessalonians was referring to Christians who stopped working in anticipation of Christ’s return.



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http://www.liberalamerica.org/2015/02/11/28-reasons-im-done-talking-to-most-of-my-conservative-friends-and-family-members/

[Faux pas]

1. You are much more

tolerant than I am. Just being 'conservative' is enough for me. Like talking to a brick wall squared.

[deathrind]

2. Could not agree more with her. N/T

[Turn CO Blue]

3. Man, I sometimes feel the same way, should be "done". I have unfollowed a dozen

people or more about 2-3 months ago on Facebook. My newsfeed is pretty reasonable, at least now.

I usually only unfriend when I see something blatant (usually racist anti-Obama crap or some screeching rant about sluts and abortion), but I lean toward not announcing it or making drama, just hit the button.

The last week, I've been more vocal. I try to keep emotion out of it, and will usually just post this very simple statement --

-- I don't agree with that. My thinking is the opposite. -- Or whatever, but you get the idea.

As to 2 Thess 3:10 - the teaching I had on that one is that Paul is referring to the traveling preachers of the time, who would be invited into the home to stay for awhile, and do their teaching to small gatherings once or twice a day. They were given room and board instead of an offering, but some often played the rockstar or prima donna - and didn't contribute to the gardening, or laundry, tending vines, making the wine (didn't drink much water back then, had to kill the giardia somehow, usually new and lightly fermented wine), or with all the various chores (housework and homesteading back then took ten times as much labor and planning as nowadays, to be sure).

Paul is saying traveling preachers must contribute their labor (since they don't have money), because giving of their teaching was not enough.

[Duppers]

4. Was done with them many years ago.

[Initech]

5. I *LOVE* this list!