What can I say to my pushy God Mother who sends me too many preaching texts and stuff?

Question

What can I tell my God Mother so she'd lighten up on me about going to Church and reading the Bible?
I love her, really do, but she is a heavy duty Bible thumper who is VERY involved w/her Church and is very "pushy" when it comes to others (well, ME....) about my spiritual life and I should go to Church, and teach my daughter this and that, and etc,,,etc....YOU KNOW what kind of person I mean!! I do not wanna disrespect her or anything like that, or be mean. But she has got to STOP sending me text msg w/verses and preachings and stuff, and then ask for me to respond!! I HATE ignoring her, but don't know what else to do???

What can I say to her so she'll lighten up on me? geeez.... I need a break!

Please help. thx in adv

Answer 1

This may not work for you since you have a close relationship with your godmother, and since she follows up on her messages to you, but this is my experience.



I had the same problem with my older sister. She rarely emailed me personal messages, just sent religious verses and stories to me. I am a Christian and appreciated her concerns but she wasn't telling me anything new or giving me anything new to think about. And her interpretation of the Bible was not always the same as mine.



First I explained to her that my email is for personal mail only and that I automatically delete anything that has Fwd in the subject line. My mistake here was that I didn't address directly the topic of religious content.



I thought I had made myself clear on this, but I didn't check my email for 3 days and when I finally did I had 17 - yes 17 - messages from her, all on religious topics and verses.



Well, that did it for me, and I blocked her so I don't receive email from her at all. No loss, since as I said, none of her messages were on a personal level.



I respect my sister's devotion and understand how important religion is to her life, but her actions were annoying and not bringing me closer to her.

Answer 2

Well, I'm doing Psychology at GCSE and got an A*

How's this:

'Hey, I respect you are trying to look out for me, I appreciate it, I really do, but I just don't see it, sorry. Just ease up a little, please?' or even 'I'm sorry but I find the arguments for Christianity and God invalid and preposterous' Depends how hard you are willing to hit, the second will stop her, but hurt her. The first may not work, but she shouldn't be offended. Hope I helped :)

Answer 3

Just go to church and fake it like the majority of em.

Answer 4

just delete them,

Answer 5

Just respond with "THANKS!" and then delete it.