People who think their views, should be my views?

Wow, time for my first Rant. I can’t pick a better topic than religion.

My loving girlfriend was talking to one of her relatives recently who insisted that because he believed what his interpretation of my favorite fictitious document, the bible, said - we had to live that way as well.

First off, let’s get this out of the way right now. If you are a religious person, a church going person, etc - more power to you. It only offends me when you try to force me to conform to your ways.

Anyhow, he goes on to say that my family is doomed to go to hell because we are unmarried with a child, that she is living the way of the devil because we are unmarried, that I shouldn’t have the hobbies I do and should provide for my family instead with that money.

Let’s just go off on a tangent right there. My family isn’t overly rich in material possessions, but they aren’t poor either. The only possible thing we could need is a 2nd car for my g/f as hers was recently totaled, but we are working on that. See, I choose rather than throwing money at my family to give them love, and affection, and care and nurturing as I deem a good provider should. So if the bills are paid, our refrigerator is stocked, and there are a few bucks left over - who gives a rats ass what I do with them?

I thought in America we were free to be ourselves? Now I am supposed to live my way because this book says so, even though I don’t believe what the book says and you do? What if I write a book about the way I choose to live, will you conform to my expectations? I would say probably not.