Merry Christmas

Well, I hope you all had a good holiday. Mine was interesting. Went to the in-laws. Had my Christmas Catholic mother-in-law, big believer in the Da Vinci Code. My Unitarian sister-in-law who's married to a Jew of a sort. She celebrates the holidays, but doesn't really believe in any of that. Seems rather hostile to religion. I truly think that she finds it bizarre for someone's faith to mean something. Then there's my father-in-law. He's theoretically a United Methodist, but more of a "I have a Bible, that's all I need" type, since he has ideas which didn't pop up until the mid 19th century, with self-proclaimed preachers with no theological training, going just by what their Bibles told them, and not understanding the language or the times in which they were written.

If you think I'm talking about the Lord's brethren, you'd be right. Man's probably a Nestorian, too, but I didn't press the issue. Fucker accused me of not believing the Bible. But as to Nestorianism, if your're going to be a heretic, might as well go for one of the great heresies.

Then there's the SIL, who really didn''t want to go to mass with the rest of the houshold, then made a comment about keeping an eye on the priest when he was near the children, I mean, this was right in front of the sanctuary, in a crowded nave. What an asshole. Then at Christmas dinner had to start about women priests. I sure be able to enjoy my Christmas dinner without having to defend my faith.

She is the personification of everything I hate about liberals. All tolerant about things a good liberal should be: gays, etc. But the faces she makes when her cousin comes up, who is expecting his fifth child in February. Five! Not being a good contraceptor goes against her values of ABC. What's it to her? She's supposed to be some tolerant liberal. Typical left wing hypocracy.

And I get to see them all in the spring for my daughter's First Communion.

And we'll probably go back in the summer.

Pray for me.