text: my family has many views on the lord and they hardly talk to each other.  do yours? it is very sad. with my dad it's religion and politics.  he's pretty rigidly conservative republican and i can't understand it.  i don't want to change his views, but i'd like him to accept that mine are valid.  we have to really avoid talking about these things to remain civil when we're together.  it's gotten pretty ugly at times.