Well that's very sad.
You resent your father and you don't respect your father because he won't think the way you told him to ? Have you tried holding your breath too ? Seriously you need to learn tolerance and grow up a bit.
My mother is well educated and completely mentally competent yet she worships every word that Sylvia Browne has ever uttered and has every book that "psychic" fraud has ever written. (yes I swear my mother could still pass a mental competency test)
However, because I respect my mother and love her unconditionaly I have merely suggested to her that perhaps Sylvia Brown is not actually a real psychic and maybe she shouldn't give slyvia Brown any more money, just my suggestion and my opinion. But if my mother decides to give the family jewels to Sylvia in her will then it is none of my business unless a doctor declares my mother legally insane.
My point is that your father is entitled to his own beliefs without fear that his immature son will stomp off and feel that he is no longer worthy of his son's respect. Very sad.
-Feeling resentment towards someones statement is not the same as completely having no positive regard for them, Im allowed to feel upset and negative towards the things people say and do without compromising our relationship.
-I am tolerant in his beliefs, I did not jump up and down pointing and shouting forsaken things at him the minute i knew he was a bible thumper. He begs the question, I offer him an alternative explanation, the debate starts. I do not pick up the phone when he calls and scream YOUR DELUSIONAL DAD before slamming the phone down.
Despite the fact your statement is brutally presumptuous, ignorant, disrespectful and makes you seem like a tool, I will agree my tolerance needs work. In all things. In fact, every area of my life requires constant improvement, I cant even imagine any facet of my life I can comfortably categorize in my head as "UTTER MASTERY", even my tolerance for people who make inept statements like you needs work.
Im sorry to hear about your mother.
Your stance was communicated reasonably that she should be allowed to think whatever she wants since they are her beliefs.
my question proposed was at what point do you draw the line? when is it too much? If I had said "If anyone disagrees with what I think its my life mission to change their mind no matter what it takes"
then you would have a case for yourself, I mentioned that people would step in for their child and not promote belief in delusional things (this does not mean I would be against for example say Religious Studies where all facets of all religions and their history could be examined from a neutral standpoint)
yet at the same token people would turn around and let their friends or family do whatever they want no matter how seemingly destructive it is or has the potential to be.
If my best friend told me he got sucked into scientology, would i just sit there and go "thats cool man, I dont believe that stuff, but i respect you" or would I communicate a deep and dire warning to him that what he is getting into is certainly not what he might expect from what they told him.
On the flip side, if my friend walked in and said he believes whole heartedly in reincarnation, thats totally harmless even if it is just wish thinking.
My father dosent have to worry about any imaginary conflict you tried to connect in your poor attempt to interpret what I was saying, and the only thing I have to worry about is your attempt to retort and defend your last garbage post.
I lied. It came to me as I was writing this but there is one thing I can comfortably say I have utterly mastered.
Drumroll.
Masturbation.
