RE: new atheist need advice
July 10, 2016 at 10:15 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2016 at 10:16 am by lisah.)
(July 7, 2016 at 3:17 pm)afrist34 Wrote: I became an atheist very recently. I grew up evangelical Christian. This past year I did a lot of questioning and searching and thought about joining different religions, but rejected this because I realized the same fundamental problems existed in each of them. I tried universalism and agnosticism but eventually found myself confirmed in atheism. Now I feel content in my beliefs but not at all comfortable sharing them with most of the people I know. I’m very close with my parents and for those who know evangelical Christians pretty well you know that if they find out you don’t believe in their God they will evangelize you for the rest of their lives, even when you stand up for your right to dissent. I don’t want to face that for the rest of my life with my parents yet I also hate living with a huge secret and really dislike still pretending to be a Christian. Have any of you been in this situation –any advice?
One of the easiest things to do is to move far away from your family for a while.
I have mentioned my atheism to one member of my family, and I presume she may have mentioned it to others. I still get the odd invitations to church from time to time and my dad wants me to be with the family in heaven when I die.
Distance just makes life easier.
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
Ursula K. Le Guin
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