Post by ashmeadskernal on Nov 2, 2009 11:39:16 GMT -5
I've been lurking for a couple months, but thought I'd come out for the Carnival.
I grew up in the Evangelical Free Church, which, was not THAT bad, mostly because we went through pastors like candy. Dresses weren't required, but were encouraged. Gays were thrown out. Children were a blessing, but somehow people stopped at 4. Mom submitted to Dad's leadership, when they couldn't agree on things, which wasn't very often because she's not the kind of person who usually has strong opinions on things.
In college, I came out of my isolated church cocoon, learned all about all the other religions, and became a closet atheist, though later became a deist. I met my husband, waited until I finished law school to start having kids. Now, I'm pregnant with the third, and final, child. I don't do pregnancy well, and I'm not looking forward to preeclampsia for the third time in a row...
I've learned quite a bit from reading everybody's posts here. One thing you may not have considered... is that atheists can be "quiverful" as well. You see, in Darwin's natural selection, it is possible for the entire purpose of an atheist's life to be to reproduce as much and as successfully as possible, in order to outbreed the "stupid religious nuts" competition and spread their genes. An atheist can be patriarchical as well, considering that in order to have the most successful breeding and child-raising practice, it is useful for the mother to keep the father around and provide a paycheck by being submissive and enticing, thus starting that whole doormat cycle that y'all are familiar with. Atheists can also be homeschooling isolationists, considering public schooling and TV to be part of a conspiracy to dumb down all children and indoctrinate them into (insert paranoid conspiracy theory here). You know, all the religious christians are out to get their children! (sigh) It's like a mirror image of what you'd expect from the average quiverfuler, just without all the Bible verses to back it all up.
So, here I am, learning how not to act like a doormat.
I grew up in the Evangelical Free Church, which, was not THAT bad, mostly because we went through pastors like candy. Dresses weren't required, but were encouraged. Gays were thrown out. Children were a blessing, but somehow people stopped at 4. Mom submitted to Dad's leadership, when they couldn't agree on things, which wasn't very often because she's not the kind of person who usually has strong opinions on things.
In college, I came out of my isolated church cocoon, learned all about all the other religions, and became a closet atheist, though later became a deist. I met my husband, waited until I finished law school to start having kids. Now, I'm pregnant with the third, and final, child. I don't do pregnancy well, and I'm not looking forward to preeclampsia for the third time in a row...
I've learned quite a bit from reading everybody's posts here. One thing you may not have considered... is that atheists can be "quiverful" as well. You see, in Darwin's natural selection, it is possible for the entire purpose of an atheist's life to be to reproduce as much and as successfully as possible, in order to outbreed the "stupid religious nuts" competition and spread their genes. An atheist can be patriarchical as well, considering that in order to have the most successful breeding and child-raising practice, it is useful for the mother to keep the father around and provide a paycheck by being submissive and enticing, thus starting that whole doormat cycle that y'all are familiar with. Atheists can also be homeschooling isolationists, considering public schooling and TV to be part of a conspiracy to dumb down all children and indoctrinate them into (insert paranoid conspiracy theory here). You know, all the religious christians are out to get their children! (sigh) It's like a mirror image of what you'd expect from the average quiverfuler, just without all the Bible verses to back it all up.
So, here I am, learning how not to act like a doormat.
