Earlier on this year, I grew tired of listening to my mother brag about how proud and lucky she about not having any gay children whilst claiming that she's not a bigot. So in my early 40's, I told her that I'm not the straight guy she use to know. I let her in on some home truths about me. For months she didn't say anything but the other day her mouth opened with such a wide range of utter bullshit across different subjects from Australia's Indigneous should be forced by the law to live the same as we do, that windmills make us sick, Tony Abbott is God's messenger, every Muslim is a threat but she's not bigoted because one of her Doctors is a Muslim(I should have asked her if she's told him of her opinion) and... Homosexuality(etc) is... when you start lowering your standards, you bring yourself down to the level of animals having sex. :dry: Keep in mind that if you raise that her Catholic Church is nothing but a pedo network with child pornography stashed in the walls of the Vatican and Pope Francis I has decided that pedophiles will never be handed over but forgiven if they pray, you have a problem and need to see a Doctor to get yourself fixed. From previosu conversations, I also know that she wants the Government to round up every non-Christian to kill them unless they convert. Christian Taliban, huh?
By google definitions, a bigot is someone who is ''intollerant to those opposing different views?'' - so if A personally doesn't like X people but accept people who are X and is going to be friends who are X if they've got a good personality, then A is not a bigot. I've put it down to 'A's and 'X's as to not talk about a particular person or view. She doesn't seem like this though, going by what you've said. I wonder what she thinks of Christians who are LGBT+ (?). Not sure what you were wanting as an answer, but I gave what I thought.
What does she do? Does she have any hobbies or passtimes? Because it seems like she needs something she actually enjoys to distract her. It seems that she must be feeling pretty sad and therefore spends a lot of time thinking about things she hates. If you want to mend things with her maybe encourage her to do more things and get people to visit her more? Or possibly even get her some therapy if she really thinks that a Christian Taliban is a good idea. Failing all of that, you're 44, you don't have to have anything to do with her. I would stay away.
I was just venting really. To me she's the typical Catholic as I am use to them throughout my life where violence is part and parcel of the culture.
She sounds a lot like my dad. The constant barrage of bigotry and hatefulness gets old, but I try to ignore/avoid it as best I can and remember the good qualities he has. It's hard sometimes though.
