My ultra-right-wing wealthy evangelical in-laws are having shit fits over President Obama.

[Aristus]

I was talking to my step-daughter last night, and she told me that her grandmother, (my m-i-l) cried all day on Inauguration Day, and is terrified that President Obama is going to take away all their money, their guns, and force them to recant their so-called "Christianity." Oh, and one of my step-daughter's cousins told her that: "You only voted for Obama because you're poor!" The cousin, her sisters, and their mother have been leeching off my in-laws for years, and none of them has a real job. OTOH, my step-daughter and her husband both work for a living, and they both voted for Barack Obama. I'm so proud of them. She was raised in a conservative Christian Republican household, but in 2004, she cast her vote for Kerry, because she wanted a good future for her son. This year, she and her husband (who is from rural Georgia (!) ) couldn't wait to vote for Obama, and are tickled to death that he's the President.

I hate to think that my in-laws will be even more intolerable now than they were during the Bush years, but that's the way it's shaping up...

[Bake]

1. Ask them if you can have the Mercedes when the Rapture comes ...

They won't be needing it, after all.

:hi:

Bake

[Aristus]

2. They're Lexus people.

You know, it really is true what they say about some people: stay away from politics and religion as conversational topics. If you avoid those landmines, my in-laws seem quite normal. My father-in-law is a very wealthy contractor, but if you asked him what he did for a living, he say: "I was a truck driver." They're both generous and kind, and a little bubble-headed, but it can be tough to see the crazy sometimes. It's just a few subjects that make people ka-wacka-wacka...

[Zomby Woof]

3. Don't underestimate rural Georgia

After all, our 39th president was from a very small town in southeastern Georgia called Plains.

[Aristus]

9. Such a great man...

My admiration for him is boundless...

[Zomby Woof]

10. Carter is the kind of evangelical I can respect

He LIVES his faith.


That aside, I am sorry you have difficult in-laws. :-(

[Deep13]

4. "...wealthy evangelical..."

So JC's admonition of poverty and the preference of spiritual over worldly things don't count anymore.

[Aristus]

5. Of course not. Tell a rich person that Jesus said that it is easier for a camel to go through

the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into Heaven, he'll start building really big needles and breeding really teeny-tiny camels...

[hfojvt]

6. I always try to remind people

that the country has had Democratic Presidents before.

[Kajsa]

7. Hang in there, Aristus.

I feel your pain, SERIESLY!

You haven't lived until your Rabid Repug brother sends
you Rush style " information" emails ad nauseam!

Then- he gives our 89 year old mother one of O'Leilly's
books for Christmas, which she can't read( poor eyesight)
and she wants me to read to her.

I drew the line there.
I love her to pieces, but either he buys her audio books, or he reads
the damn thing to her, himself. He visits several times a month.

God- do I hear you!!

Hang in there, my dear.

:pals:

[Lyric]

8. If your faith in Christianity is so weak that someone could "force" you to recant it

then you aren't much of a Christian to begin with, IMHO.

:shrug: