Reply #46: its is largely fear and do not question mode. my mother was born in 1930s [View All]

[faithnotgreed]

that generation had a great deal of fear and were taught in the schools and the churches and in the homes that authority (country being the ultimate) was always always right and you DO NOT QUESTION. fear of parents authority (what they said went), fear for survival, not only the depression but of course ww2 (which was the time they were deeply taught that the country was the most moral and the strongest and was fighting a righteous war that they could be proud of since they were the liberators etc) then comes the korean conflict and cold war and hiding under your desks and then vietnam. these are not people who can understand at all that this was being protested
you just dont do that.

and this is the mindset that is passed down to many others.

these are people who at least felt like they had honorable leaders (which we absolutely dont have now but they dont want to see that) and also had blind trust as they were taught to have.

my mother, like many, dont think for themselves, are full of worry, and dont want to know what the truth is because, at least for her, its far too painful. i know that from many other aspects of her

she and i do not talk politics. but we talk all the time, just not about that. a month ago i slipped in that i was seeing f 9/11 (she did say ewww when i mentioned mm, even though she had enjoyed watching some of his "awful truth" videos with me a couple yrs ago which i reminded her about)
and somewhat before that i mentioned the evil that is in our government. then this week i happened to email that i had gotten up early one day and found that john edwards had been chosen. a friend of mind had now felt hope.
there was no conversation really about any of these things. a couple days later she wrote me a nice email that asked if we could not talk about politics (shes coming to visit me in a couple weeks). she said that Jesus didnt speak about politics except maybe ordering the money changers out of the temple.
we both love God verymuch so i didnt take this as inappropriate for her to say but i made sure to respond to it in an equally kind way but firm that i felt God most definitely would speak out about greed and evil and its intent to stamp out good in the world etc)
many people just dont want to know whats going on so they listen to people who they think represent their values, their patriotism and then all the other filth doesnt get filtered out for them

there are so many people who are depressed or anxious or sick in some way so i try to be understanding but i know her environment feeds the "understated" duality of what some Christians say they believe and what these same people actually say and do.
shes a sweet woman and im so thankful that she is at least open when we do talk about the edges of these topics, but for her she just doesnt want to allow the truth in because it would cause her too much pain and despair to hear what is actually going on and what * actually is doing. this is not how she was taught to feel about things