Supporting Your Loved One without Supporting Their Religion? How?

[Rhondazvous]

I love my mother. She’s the greatest woman in the world. But I hate what the Church has done to her mind. She has actually told me that she is believing god that I will find myself in a situation where I have no choice but to call on Jesus. The last time we talked about god, we got into a terrible argument. It was all the more terrible because it was Mother’s Day. Now though she seems to have decided to just pretend like I’m still a Christian. Needless to say, I’ve not tried to encourage nor disabuse this delusion.

She is a singer and has a new CD of gospel music that she is promoting. Most of the songs I wrote myself when I was a Christian, my mother’s voice can take a song to heights and depths to which mere sound has no business going. Coupled with the lyrics that came straight from my heart, it’s a dynamic CD. She wants me to get really involved in promoting the music. Trouble is that while I want to support my mother, I don’t want to promote Christianity. As a professional web designer, I created a website for her music company. I told myself that I was doing this as a professional. But I wonder just how far I can go. More than once people have joined something based on what I had written. I’ve consoled myself by just doing my job as a web designer without putting any creative energy into promoting the music. But this is my music and my mother. I feel at the same time guilty and angry at being put in this position.

Have any of you had to choose between supporting a loved one and promoting religion? How do you strike a balance?