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[quote=Anonymous][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]

unlike "indoctrination" which is descriptive of an activity,  "smartass" strikes me as inherently and personally insulting.  I know Christians cannot always act in Christian ways, but I won't be participating in any other discussions in which the term "smartass" is directed to me.  The tone of this has changed so much for the worse, that I'm not sure if I'm engaging with the same person anymore. [/quote]

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