Food, Religion and Parents: Born again

Born again

By lordoftheweird - 03/11/2023 09:00 - Canada

Today, my dad bought a Bible. He's completely illiterate and is basing his religious beliefs off people on TV saying "It's in the Bible." I miss bacon and am tired of explaining to people that he's an idiot. FML

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By going Old Testament on his ass - 01/07/2024 08:00 - United States - New York

Today, my son announced he was leaving our religion. I told him that, as sad I was, that I accepted and loved him. He seemed disappointed, and I noticed him discreetly fiddling with a camera. A little snooping led me to his Reddit account, where he called us all, "inbred, illiterate, bible-thumpers." FML

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You deserved it 185

By K.. - 07/05/2011 17:38 - United States

Today, my dad demonstrated just how incredibly illiterate he is. He sent me a chain email about the awful lives of people with "Asparagus syndrome". FML

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Booksmart

By Anonymous - 04/04/2024 09:00 - United States

Today, my dad accused me of being illiterate when I used a word he'd never heard of, saying it sounded like lazy slang, and that it wasn't a real word. He then yelled at me for being a "smartass who's always right" when I read aloud the definition from his 1978 copy of Webster's dictionary. Guess he's not enthused. FML

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Good God, man…

By bloodyhell - 15/03/2020 15:05 - United States

Today, my dad tried to convert me, as he has numerous times before, and asked me why I was an atheist. After giving him a polite explanation and asking him if we could drop the subject, he nodded slowly and said, "You must be menstruating or something. You'll change your mind." FML

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You deserved it 285

By Ryan - 28/08/2011 20:10 - United States

Today, after a long discussion, my dad still doesn't understand how evolution works, and thinks it's a myth that was debunked a long time ago. FML

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You deserved it 8 174

By oh gee, you don't say - 15/12/2012 18:43 - United Kingdom - Southampton

Today, my dad forced the whole family to sit through a two-hour lecture, with supporting research, on how the "Mayan prophecy" is actually a load of shit fabricated by conmen. Nice to know he thinks we're all borderline brain-dead, gullible fuckwits who believed it to begin with. Thanks, dad. FML

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Hungry

By The gay child - 09/05/2018 19:00

Today, a discussion with my father about what to have for lunch turned into a linguistics lesson, then a bible story, followed by religious anti-gay propaganda, and finally a brief discussion on why my brother would make a terrible military dictator. I still haven't gotten anything for lunch. FML

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Grown-ass man

By Anonymous - 03/02/2022 05:59 - Canada - Ottawa

Today, my 61 year-old father snatched a letter from my hands and threw four different fits because he misread it four different times, then yelled at me for "not reading it properly." I had to explain it to him. FML

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You deserved it 92

By Joy - 16/06/2010 14:42 - Denmark

Today, we had guests coming over. My dad wanted me to make some bacon, but I refused because I'm a vegetarian, and don't like to touch meat. His response? 'Good joke honey, now make the bacon.' FML

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By Anonymous - 12/12/2011 06:00 - United States

Today, my mother refused to agree with any of my logic because it's "not in the bible." She can't find any fault with it, just refuses to agree with it. FML

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Ubehage 32

Friday 3 November 2023 15:42

Take some time off to read the Bible with him some day. Start from page one, and read EVERYTHING! Ask him to think about it and what it means on the way. Remind him of contradictions in earlier verses, and demand that he thinks about it. There is no other way to wake people up from religious brainwashing.

poopface82 19

Friday 3 November 2023 16:21

One can use religion to justify wonderful things or shitty things. Religion, like power, does not build character. It reveals it.

Comments

Ubehage 32

Friday 3 November 2023 15:42

Chazzster 28

Friday 3 November 2023 18:36

Only one problem with that - Reading the Bible cover to cover takes a very long time and you start with the most mythical portion of the Bible and the least relevant to today or being a Christian. Either OP or their Dad would give up the readings far before it would do much good. Part of the root problem is that Dad is illiterate and relies on what other people “in authority” tell him his “beliefs” are or are supposed to be. Rather than dump the problem in OP’s lap to read 783,137 words and explain the meaning and inconsistencies to Dad; Dad needs to learn to read and to understand what he reads. I fully agree that “The Bible” can be used to justify almost any position you’ve already decided on - All you need to do is to cherry pick the segments that meet your preferences.