Anonymous wrote:The PPs here are pretty damn disrespectful, but I'm not surprised that you people aren't able to be open-minded. Good for you!
Having said that, OP your cousin is out of bounds. Frankly she's stupid if she thought she wasn't going to get laughed at by sharing her beliefs with you so maybe this will be a lesson for her. I actually share the same beliefs as your cousin, but I do NOT ever share them and nobody in RL knows I have them - for precisely the reason demonstrated in this thread. People are intolerant, narrow-minded, and disrespectful about our beliefs. That's just how it is.
I still agree that it's not right of her to force her ideas on you. Belief is deeply personal. Nobody has the right to tell you how to live (just like you actually don't have the right to make fun of her beliefs, but you go ahead and be whatever kind of person you are).
Now you are projecting bc OP sounds like she goes out of her way to not laugh at her cousin and tries to respect her but the cousin is beyond pushy.