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Post by runny on Jul 18, 2010 23:24:26 GMT -5
nudging, pushing? Same thing. Truth be told, I think it's for your good. Whats good about going to something you dont give a s**t about?
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Post by dlectronic on Jul 19, 2010 1:43:31 GMT -5
nudging, pushing? Same thing. Truth be told, I think it's for your good. Whats good about going to something you dont give a s**t about? If Christianity is truth, than trying to get him to consider it (or maybe reconsider it, depending on his situation) is absolutely good. If Christianity is true, it makes no difference whether he "gives a s**t about" it or not; it is beneficial for him to hear about it. Of course, I have said nothing to indicate how or why Christianity is true. I have only talked about what is good and right if Christianity is true.So it would seem that those who find Christianity to be true will find what the uncle is doing to be right, while those who aren't believers might find it to be bad.
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runny
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Post by runny on Jul 19, 2010 2:04:19 GMT -5
Think of it this way, If a person doesnt believe in something being forced to go will not change anything.
~Concerned agnostic f**k
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Post by dlectronic on Jul 19, 2010 3:16:41 GMT -5
It probably will not, indeed. But it might, and we don't know for sure.
However, I wouldn't force my kid to go if he was so stubborn as to completely not consider a thing even to appease me, even if I had told him with a sincere heart it's for his good.
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Post by Muffy on Jul 19, 2010 13:53:07 GMT -5
I understand why my family is doing this, and I will just have to live with it for awhile.
So having exhausted my example, are there any others to discuss?
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Post by Fyacin on Jul 19, 2010 19:03:13 GMT -5
I don't think that it's right to force a person to go to church. I'd certainly encourage a person to attend church; but if a person does not want to attend, it serves no purpose to make them to go. I say to lead by example. Beyond that, it's the person's choice. Going to church has never, and will never save anyone anyway. Perhaps the personal witness one could receive from the believers in a church could convict someone, to the point where they were saved, but it is unlikely for this to happen when you are being forced to go the place in the first place.
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Post by Patrick on Jul 20, 2010 1:58:40 GMT -5
I am repaying him by helping him out with construction work, so I don't see the point. It just seems unfair that since I have no other choice, he can just satisfy his religious fear of losing my poor lost soul. If he set forth going to church as one of the conditions of staying with him to begin with, then it's part of the agreement, and you've just got to live with it. Whatever you agreed to to begin with should be sufficient to stay with the person. Other than that, I don't see why he should be able to force you to do anything. If you only agreed to construction work, then that should be sufficient.
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