There is something about religious wives and atheist husbands. For instance my cousin was always an atheist and even bragged, when we were kids, how he always spits 3 times on the church when he passes by it and yet he met some christian woman who made him baptize and marry in the fucking church and I know few more guys like that. I mean really guys you need to grow a pair.
You see they don't believe and don't really care they just go to the church maybe once every few years, but at the same time let their own kids be roasted by this religious assholes that tell them science is a lie and make them at least confused that they'll have problems learning science in school not to mention later finishing worthy college, if they don't go full fanatic. So at least you should do it for your kids and therefore for the rest of the world, because world would certainly be a better place if there were more smarter people.
Maybe you should confront your wife and discuss about the core of Christianity and the fact that it has been debunked. I'm not saying to press her into de-converting, but go trough some facts, some books (like Jerry Coyne's 'Faith Versus Fact') and/or something like Richard Dawkins videos on youtube. For instance how science shows us that Adam and Eve never existed and therefore Jesus' mission is bullshit. If she refuses to even talk about it ask her if she wants to be a stubborn fanatic that she doesn't want to learn some scientific facts and if they don't convince her then you'll all revert back to religion. I mean you said that she was already on the "other" side but she obviously needs to go deeper.
When it comes to your community, of course you need to go step by step, but if you have your wife on your side and they don't accept you as you are then fuck them. Are people that don't accept you really worthy of your company? Maybe they drag you in in some ideological conversations but you explain them.
You see they don't believe and don't really care they just go to the church maybe once every few years, but at the same time let their own kids be roasted by this religious assholes that tell them science is a lie and make them at least confused that they'll have problems learning science in school not to mention later finishing worthy college, if they don't go full fanatic. So at least you should do it for your kids and therefore for the rest of the world, because world would certainly be a better place if there were more smarter people.
Maybe you should confront your wife and discuss about the core of Christianity and the fact that it has been debunked. I'm not saying to press her into de-converting, but go trough some facts, some books (like Jerry Coyne's 'Faith Versus Fact') and/or something like Richard Dawkins videos on youtube. For instance how science shows us that Adam and Eve never existed and therefore Jesus' mission is bullshit. If she refuses to even talk about it ask her if she wants to be a stubborn fanatic that she doesn't want to learn some scientific facts and if they don't convince her then you'll all revert back to religion. I mean you said that she was already on the "other" side but she obviously needs to go deeper.
When it comes to your community, of course you need to go step by step, but if you have your wife on your side and they don't accept you as you are then fuck them. Are people that don't accept you really worthy of your company? Maybe they drag you in in some ideological conversations but you explain them.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
