Shitweasel Grandparent is about to be 86'd from their grandson's life
Enough about politics, how about religion? A grandmother is upset that her grandson is being raised without faith and wants permission to impose her beliefs. A really bad take follows but is saved by the comments
I was nibbling on a delightful pain au chocolat at breakfast this morning in Austrailia, scanning the NY Times on my iPad, and this gem came across:
Do you need to read this tissue thin advice column to realize that Ms. Gottlieb is committing a fuckerty?
No, no you do not.
It is predictable. A grandmother is steeped in religious twaddle, and she's upset that her son and daughter in-law are raising her grandson to not be a person of faith. She admits that her DIL is more intelligent (no duh, she doesn't believe in a magical sky-daddy) and will muff the arguments she would like to make.
No seriously, she wrote that, and Ms. Gottlieb actually has the gall to say that "young children are capable of hearing two belief systems and choosing for them self without their parents influence.
Gee folks, is that true?
It is not.
So much of the religious tradition of this country is centered around parents wanting to prevent their offspring from hearing any dissenting view. They are indoctinated fromn a young age, often home schooled or sent to private schools all to avoid them having even a hint of the secular world.
No, young children are not able to rationalize two disparate views and synthesize a belief system that they prefer.
In fact, this Grandmother wants to hear that she can just attempt to overrule the child's parents, and that she is pained by her DIL's atheism.
I was not raised in any religious tradition. My father was not a believer, and my mother was a tenuous Presbyterian, and it just never came up. I didn't go to church. My first contact with organized religion was when my mother wanted a week of free days during the summer and sent us to "bible camp" with the Mormon girl across the street.
In that bible camp, I realized that every fucking thing they were saying (it was Mormonism after all) was utter and complete bullshit. Even 5-year-old me realized that what they were force feeding us was logically inconsistent, and just trash.[1]
Back to the article.
The advice of the "therapist"? Just assert herself, and tell the precocious little godless imp that faith is important.
Yeah, that will go well.
I predict that the next time this grandmother writes to this advice column it will be about how she's been cut completely out of her grandchild's life, and how her sky daddy is super sad.
The best part
The article isn't really worth reading, and I wouldn't have wasted a "gift link" for it, except that when I clicked on the comments, it was page after page of commenters telling this "concerned grandmother" to just drop it, to not proseletyze, and if she insists, that she will be excised from their precious grandchild's life completely.
Or:
Or:
I scrolled a bunch, and I have yet to find even a single comment supportive of this Grandmother.
Huzzah!
1 - after the second day, I was told to stay at home, I was "disrupting" the lessons by calling out their illogical assertions. I was a little asshole even as a wee lad.
