Can't We All Just Get Along?

Can I vent a little? Thanks! I'm trying to get better at jumping on the computer as soon as I can when a thought hits  that I really want to share. I usually have to chase my kids off the computer, reminding them that it's not theirs, and enduring their constant questions of when will I be done.

Anyway, two thoughts that are bugging me today.............One: I read this on a friend's facebook page this morning: Happy National Atheists Day!   ‎"the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God".............I am having a hard time with this. I have good friends and relatives who are atheists, and I don't believe they are any more  foolish or wicked than I am myself. That statement, though pulled from the Bible seems very judgmental and mean. I know there's lots of stuff in the Bible that doesn't make you feel good, but to call others' fools as a way of shoving it in their face that you believe you are going to heaven and they aren't is very Christ like. I don't think David was taunting people when he said this.....I think he was simply enjoying his relationship with Christ and saying, man, y'all are missing out, in a loving way......as in come join the party! Not as in, You scum, you're going to hell, and I'm so glad, cause you deserve it, cause you're so stupid!!!!!

Rant Two: Yesterday a friend of mine was trying to remember if she had had her 20th anniversary yet.....and she said, Well my oldest child is 18, so I BETTER have been married 20 years!........I just bristled when I heard her say this, as if she had to prove she had been a good girl all her life. As if she would have had a child pre-marriage that it would make her a bad person. Why do people think that the obvious things we do that aren't approved of, make us bad people?!?!?!? What we do does not make us a better or worse person!!!! Grrr.......everybody has got their panties all up on a wad so tight while riding their high horses that the slightest though about them doing something wrong is a very bad feeling for them. I say, dig out the wedgy, get comfortable with yourself, and reach out to those who lead different lives then yours, and learn from them.