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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (41796)	6/25/1999 1:00:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I think my husband thought I was doing some sort of anti-Christian mumbo jumbo stuff. Not to hurt him, but to destroy his religion. In Northern Ireland in the '50's and '60's, when the Christian brothers were beating him nearly to death in Catholic school, it was absolutely unacceptable and very threatening to be non-Christian. There was, of course, a lot of tension between the Catholics and the Ulster Scots Protestants, but at least you were SOMETHING!! Everyone was totally defined by their religious beliefs. I am really disappointed that he felt threatened, because I went out of my way to help him pick out a really beautiful Navajo turquoise and silver cross, which he always wears. I was trying to say with that gesture that everyone is entitled to their own belief system, but now I suspect he is hoping it wards off my evil spirits or something. I will not steal "believability quotient" from you. I do think that children reared in autocratic environments often NEED the structure of a belief system to feel secure in the world.