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Uber Christian

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Recently my mom has become very involved with the church. It's too the point now that she attends EVERY event and activity the church holds or sponsors. She buys EVERY Christianity book imaginable. Does EVERY bible study in town. And brings up God or Jesus at every opportunity (and most times when it doesn't even fit the subject i.e. brushing your teeth). She's hardly home anymore. I've lived away from home for about a year while attending college but recently had to move home to save some cash while I finish school.
It's now come to the point Dad dedicates all his time to his business and comes home only to sleep because she's not home. My 18 year old brother isn't going to college because he's working with a local band, but has begun to spend all his time video gaming because no one is around. Meanwhile I'm between school and am never home but to sleep. I'm christian and go to church occasionally, neither my brother or dad are really interested in church to attend regularly (which is a whole different topic). In short it feels like Mom's hit Uber Christianity and it's split the family apart. It's become so bad she's insulted my Buddist girlfriend behind her back (in front of me) and trys to convert everyone under the sun before nightfall.
Am I alone thinking this is a little much. I mean I'd like everyone to be one big happy family but I'm not gonna cram it down their throats. I'm all for God but not leaving those you care about in your dust when you're born again.
Some insights would be appreciated.
 
Prometheus59650 said:
Recently my mom has become very involved with the church. It's too the point now that she attends EVERY event and activity the church holds or sponsors. She buys EVERY Christianity book imaginable. Does EVERY bible study in town. And brings up God or Jesus at every opportunity (and most times when it doesn't even fit the subject i.e. brushing your teeth). She's hardly home anymore. I've lived away from home for about a year while attending college but recently had to move home to save some cash while I finish school.
It's now come to the point Dad dedicates all his time to his business and comes home only to sleep because she's not home. My 18 year old brother isn't going to college because he's working with a local band, but has begun to spend all his time video gaming because no one is around. Meanwhile I'm between school and am never home but to sleep. I'm christian and go to church occasionally, neither my brother or dad are really interested in church to attend regularly (which is a whole different topic). In short it feels like Mom's hit Uber Christianity and it's split the family apart. It's become so bad she's insulted my Buddist girlfriend behind her back (in front of me) and trys to convert everyone under the sun before nightfall.
Am I alone thinking this is a little much. I mean I'd like everyone to be one big happy family but I'm not gonna cram it down their throats. I'm all for God but not leaving those you care about in your dust when you're born again.
Some insights would be appreciated.
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well, its a bad suituation, but I dont think its really your moms fualt...though maybe somone should kick your brother out of the house and tell him to get a job....

also, about the buddist Girl freind


I dont recommend you get married or anything or atleast DONT HAVE KIDS

I may have never been married since Im only 12

But I Know that poeple from diffrent belifes getting married and having kids is bad...why? because you will fight over whos Belif get passed on....and stuff....
 
Prometheus59650 said:
Recently my mom has become very involved with the church. It's too the point now that she attends EVERY event and activity the church holds or sponsors. She buys EVERY Christianity book imaginable. Does EVERY bible study in town. And brings up God or Jesus at every opportunity (and most times when it doesn't even fit the subject i.e. brushing your teeth). She's hardly home anymore. I've lived away from home for about a year while attending college but recently had to move home to save some cash while I finish school.
It's now come to the point Dad dedicates all his time to his business and comes home only to sleep because she's not home. My 18 year old brother isn't going to college because he's working with a local band, but has begun to spend all his time video gaming because no one is around. Meanwhile I'm between school and am never home but to sleep. I'm christian and go to church occasionally, neither my brother or dad are really interested in church to attend regularly (which is a whole different topic). In short it feels like Mom's hit Uber Christianity and it's split the family apart. It's become so bad she's insulted my Buddist girlfriend behind her back (in front of me) and trys to convert everyone under the sun before nightfall.
Am I alone thinking this is a little much. I mean I'd like everyone to be one big happy family but I'm not gonna cram it down their throats. I'm all for God but not leaving those you care about in your dust when you're born again.
Some insights would be appreciated.
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You are asking for insights and it is obvious that you could do with some. I ignore whether I can help, but I will try:

When people "plunge into" and completely immerse themselves into something, their immersion more often than not is an attempt to wash away and to escape what was behind them, and the extent to which their immersion appears to be unwholesome usually reflects the very extent of the unwholesomeness of what they are trying to escape ...

To grasp what is going on here, one should - little as we know and narrow as our field of vision can often be - first of all bear in mind that it is more important to understand what we cannot see, than what we can see, and that the impact of the present which we can see often obscures the past; the past which contains the elements of what was at the origin of the present.

Then we should acknowledge that there is little difference between the comportment of your dad and the comportment of your mom: both are trying to escape into something and both are trying to escape from "something" ... and one would "almost" say that this "something" is a phenomenon which they have in common ... their marriage or an event or series of events which upset the balance and/or the cohesion of that marriage.

Why? Well, everything ... even if we don't always perceive it ... is always in balance and the extent of your mom's focus on the only true Love that we all know may explain that her image of another love which was important for her may have been shaken. The cause may either have been an event which occurred suddenly or a series of events which built up gradually and eventually had a similar result.

An insight or a "wild guess?" Whatever it may be, I wish you and your family the strength to cope with this situation which must no doubt be very difficult for all of you. My prayers accompany you.
 
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