Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

I can follow a recipe. It's hard for me to put 2 foods together to make a meal. And a meal that has to have 3 things ready at the same time is so anxiety provoking I want to cry. I think it's a little harder when you don't eat meat. Growing up we had meat, potatoes and a vegetable or two every night. I could do that, but we don't eat meat.

I do about 80% of the cooking because I love to cook. Love it. In our house, if one cooks the other cleans up after dinner. I also handle all the finances, retirement accounts, and do our taxes every year, because I am good at it. My husband does virtually all the grocery shopping and other errands. We both do laundry. He probably does 75% of the house cleaning. Really, our chores are divvied out based on skills and interests rather than gender.

Just as in religion, women are conditioned from a very young age to do what is often referred to as menial tasks. That which is lesser. Too many women accept those roles without ever questioning them, just like believing in a religion handed down to them from a previous generation without ever questioning the whys behind the beliefs.

One reason I married my husband was I knew he would do domestic chores. We split a lot of them. The only thing I do that he does not is clean the litter box, and that's because I have a certain way I do it and don't want him interfering with my method. He does his laundry but I would never have him do mine because I have my own way for that, too. We play to our own strengths. We also try to keep things as simple as possible and make things as easy on each other as possible.

For a long time, because of conditioned beliefs, I saw our roles as husband and wife. These days I phase our relationship as partners. We are equals.

Bloomberg supported a lot of Dems during the last elections to Congress. Of the 21 people he donated to who were elected all but 6 were women. Get more women in the House and the Senate, pay parity will be taken care of. The two term mayor of Washington DC has endorsed Bloomberg. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser is a woman and black. She said, "I think what Mike has said is that he's used crude language. And I'm pretty sure that all of us can imagine Wall Street 30 years ago, male-dominated. And I think we would all be very naive if we thought a lot of crude remarks didn't happen."...The mayor said she was more disturbed by a Politico report that six women of color left Warren's campaign staff in Nevada because they felt ignored and treated like tokens. Warren apologized after the report was published, saying she believed the women. Anyone expecting purity is naïve.

Urgh, I may have put my giant foot into it. I follow my son's church on FB. Yesterday they posted a picture of some women cleaning the kitchen in their multi-use building, with a "Thank you to the women" note. Even though I'm not a member, I mentioned that I was disappointed that an otherwise progressive church divides tasks by gender. I got two quick responses: one from a WOMAN complaining that "You feminists always cross the line" 🙄, and the other from the person who administers their FB page explaining it was their women's group who was cleaning as a thank-you for using the space. I had just responded to comment #1 with "Where exactly is that line?" and had started to respond to the second, thanking them for the information, when the whole post went kablooie and disappeared. So I don't know if their admin is mad at me, or at the June Cleaver who answered me, or if they are just chicken shits. I'm going to dinner there tomorrow, so I guess I'll find out if there are spears thrown when I enter the hall. Shall I wear an armored Mardi Gras outfit?

The most likely reason churches are losing members is the apostasy predicted in 2 Thes 2:3....

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"

I see this happening a lot, and many are falling away (apostatizing) from the faith (Christianity). Just another sign of the End Times.

Our winter has been really mild so far. I have almost finished pruning all of our bushes and will start light fertilizing by the end of the week. We have has almost none stop rain. It sprinkles almost every day and full on rains at least twice a week. All this water leaches nutrients from the soil so fertilizer in very light dustings is required to keep my bushes and flower beds in good health. I'll post some pictures when things start warming up.

Alice to be honest I don’t think they will be too open to criticism lol. Why are you going to dinner at the church? For your son? I have a friend who invites me to her church for holiday dinners even though I don’t practice. The food is great and I always feel guilty but the people are sweet. I’m like Kerry they must be trying to recruit me if they tell you to bring a friend. But they don’t. I’m like you though. Usually I can’t hold it in if I’m thinking it. But mostly with work and dr 😂

santabarbarian, Perhaps politics is now more stress inducing than religion or the lack there of.

There is 2liberal political threads here that don’t show up in active topics. The conservative thread went dark over a year ago. The mods can explain it to you. PM them, or maybe they’ll step in now.

JRNJ, Here is the link to the political atheist thread. https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/7/topics/...

and the liberal political thread that is not atheist. https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/84/topics...

More than that she is saying that atheists and those who don't follow religion are bringing on the end times. After she's raptured, do you think I can have her car?

Sorry - I don't believe in the "end of times" when the guy in the sky's supposed to zap us all. The consideration is what we ourselves are doing to the earth. Climate change is serious.

Ananda - we've had a mild winter too. I did prune my roses according to conventional wisdom on Valentines Day - which is supposed to be the coldest time of winter. Oops - our temps were 78 that day. But I too have pruned all my bushes & cleaned out all my beds. Hesitating about the fertilizing. It's supposed to be 32 degrees Wednesday night.

OOps - I posted before reading to the end of the last page. I assumed Ananda posted about her garden as sort of a "la, la, la - my ears are closed" - which is why I did too, in case some of you are thinking I'm crazy. I may be crazy, but like Devine - you'd think the troll would understand we're just laughing AT her.