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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I believe in building a relationship with my Creator. That is what my kids will have to do as well."

There's the indoctrination part:  I "believe" and my kids will "have to."[/quote]
Are you being a smart ass? I am genuinely asking this question. "Have to do" as in I cannot build a relationship for them, not as in 'that is what I required of them'. And if you come back with some smart ass response about the improper usage of "have to"...[/quote]

With the upfront and repeated "smartass" references, you're not making it easy for me to respond in a measured way, but I'll try.   Yes, I thought of it in terms of "what I require of them" -- not a far-out interpretation, I don't think.  Even with your other choice, it still has the ring of a mandate or an extremely limited choice, as in -- "they should work hard at it -- just as I have done."

And this is all about something you believe -- it's not like the benefits of vegetables over velveeta, for which there is evidence.[/quote]
HUH???? Same difference if a friend says, one day I want to be married and I say "well, if you get married, that is a relationship you will have to work at it, you don't just get married and then sit back and do nothing, it takes work to develop that relationship" 
No where did i say that i am requiring them to do anything. I'm saying that's what the work you need to put in to get what you want. 
And I was being sincere in questioning if you were being a smartass, just being real. The idea that you were gleaning that I am mandating something...well i ASSUMED that most folk would understand that was not what I was going for. As for whether or not you are measured in your response, that's on you, your choice, I do not care. By the way, the velveeta -- baby that was totally smartass...no worries tho[/quote]

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