Ex husband rant

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Have to get this off my chest:

My ex-husband has turned into a complete right-wing, fundamentalist Christian--goes to one of those mega churches. That's all he does--does his AA thing, reads religious books, goes to church and watches Rush Limbaugh. Pressures the rest of the family to be churchy and acts offended when we aren't. We never have been, and he knows that.

I'm about as liberal personally as a person can get, and I just am having a hard time with this.

So, I understand about the "higher power" thing, and considering that he's been sober for 25 years; that's fine. I DON'T understand how he turned into a right-wing conservative fundie, though. He was a hippie like me when we were married--I had to fight him to get the kids baptised even. He never exhibited even the tiniest iota of spirituality when we were together, so it freaks me out -- it's like a total cultish personality change. I worry that he's been brainwashed or something.

So, after many years of fairly cordial relations (we've been separated and/or divorced since 1983) I can now barely stand to talk to him. We have nothing in common anymore except the kids. It makes me very sad, the kids are freaked out.

Furthermore, I am struggling with my distaste and prejudice against Christians. I find organized religion evil, and fundamentalists of any sort hateful. But I don't want to be a hater, because that's bad. It's a dilemma I don't know how to resolve, except just to try to be more compassionate.

Rant; yeah--thanks for listening.