Hello, everyone.
I thought I would make an account and introduce myself.
I grew up in a pretty fundamentalist family in an evangelical church, and bought the whole thing hook line and sinker for years. Deconversion was a long painful process that started with me finding a lot of questions I knew I couldn't answer to my satisfaction. Eventually I hit a critical mass, panicked, and stopped thinking about religion at all. After I had a bit of distance, I looked at everything again, did some reading and some thinking, and decided that none of it made any sense.
So now I have been an athiest for a few years. My husband knows, but I still haven't told my family. They know I don't go to church, and seem to have adopted a "don't ask if you don't want to know" policy, which is working fine for the moment.
I've been thinking a lot about it again recently because I'm afraid of what will happen when it becomes obvious that I am not indoctrinating my son as a True Christian™. He's too little right now for it to be an issue, but I want to be prepared for either a) having to come out or b) possible attempts at behind-the-back indoctrination. I'd hope they wouldn't try that, but I can't say for sure. On the one hand, nobody even mentioned the lack of a baptism, on the other, my mom JUST liked a post on Facebook about how she'll fight tooth and nail on her knees for her kids and grandkids to have a relationship with Jesus.
I might not post a lot. I'm mostly doing a lot of reading and thinking.
I thought I would make an account and introduce myself.
I grew up in a pretty fundamentalist family in an evangelical church, and bought the whole thing hook line and sinker for years. Deconversion was a long painful process that started with me finding a lot of questions I knew I couldn't answer to my satisfaction. Eventually I hit a critical mass, panicked, and stopped thinking about religion at all. After I had a bit of distance, I looked at everything again, did some reading and some thinking, and decided that none of it made any sense.
So now I have been an athiest for a few years. My husband knows, but I still haven't told my family. They know I don't go to church, and seem to have adopted a "don't ask if you don't want to know" policy, which is working fine for the moment.
I've been thinking a lot about it again recently because I'm afraid of what will happen when it becomes obvious that I am not indoctrinating my son as a True Christian™. He's too little right now for it to be an issue, but I want to be prepared for either a) having to come out or b) possible attempts at behind-the-back indoctrination. I'd hope they wouldn't try that, but I can't say for sure. On the one hand, nobody even mentioned the lack of a baptism, on the other, my mom JUST liked a post on Facebook about how she'll fight tooth and nail on her knees for her kids and grandkids to have a relationship with Jesus.
I might not post a lot. I'm mostly doing a lot of reading and thinking.
