

Anonymous says: Well---I was raised in the faith and after reading a little and thinking a little am no longer a believer in anything. I married a wonderful person that was born and raised Catholic. We had two great kids and they were baptized Catholic. They also go to a local Catholic School (mostly for quality of education as far as I'm concerned). My problems tend to come from the strained relationship it's created with my parents. Both are still VERY Adventist....VERY. And I think they hold my children at arms length for their (really my wife and mine's) choice of their religion. They're so convinced that the second coming is just around the bend and that the pope is the devil and all the other rot that they can't view their own grandchildren as just a couple great kids...they can only view them as Catholics.



They don't visit much.



They don't contact them often.



They don't talk to them on the phone.



I'd say it wasn't a big deal, except my Nieces and Nephews that are being raised Adventist have great relations with my parents.....often spend weeks at a time visiting them in Florida at my parents invitation. It's sad to me....my kids I think just don't wonder about it....they don't understand the blah-blah. But one day, they're going to ask me why my parents don't speak that often to them and I don't know what I'm going to be able to say.....your grandparents believe in an invisible man that lives in the sky and because you don't pray to the EXACT same invisible person, and you are a Catholic, they don't want to talk to you?



