Comments on: M.I.L.E. (Mother I’d Like to Enlighten) http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2011/10/01/m-i-l-e-mother-id-like-to-enlighten/ Discussions of religion and ethics from an atheist perspective Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:44:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Andy http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2011/10/01/m-i-l-e-mother-id-like-to-enlighten/comment-page-1/#comment-2984 Andy Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:17:32 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=2012#comment-2984 “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
– C. S. Lewis (yes I realize the irony)

]]> By: ff42 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2011/10/01/m-i-l-e-mother-id-like-to-enlighten/comment-page-1/#comment-2983 ff42 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:48:55 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=2012#comment-2983 While iamanatheist’s words are great, I would engage your husband in the matter. Does MIL treat him the same way?

If I were in your situation I might also try to be real with her. “Dear MIL, I have enjoyed most of the things we have had together and I would like to continue our relationship but after you bring up religion or God I feel X and don’t like that feeling.” And then let that hang in the air, don’t make any conclusions nor blaming, just let it hang every single time she brings it up.

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