Christian Leftist

Thanks to the pillars of moral hypocrisy like Alan Keyes, a preacher and politician who disowned his own daughter after she came out as a lesbian, the public knows all about the horrible ordeals that gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people endure when they choose to reveal their sexual identities to their parents. What may not be as obvious to the American people is that 86 percent of this country is Christian, and a great number of Atheist and Christian families have extremely emotional fights over the religious choices of children and parents. I myself fought bitterly for the right to go to a church that my parents thought was a cult because I went there so often. In truth, it was because people didn’t have as many catfights on holy ground.

Well, there’s this video going around the internet where someone — presumably a disillusioned sibling — covertly taped a fight between a mother and her son about his assertion of Atheism. It’s both hilarious and frightening: hilarious, because the mom is obviously an uptight, hypocritical tyrant who threatens to cancel Christmas (”because Christmas is about JESUS!”) and frightening because it show how common it is for weak-minded individuals to resort to verbal and/or physical threats when faced with the possibility of co-inhabiting a house with someone who disagrees with their beliefs. The video is a great example of how NOT to behave when discussing your religion with others.

This really isn’t the way to convert your kid back to Catholicism.