My family never went to church, and never really talked about religion. I went a couple of times when I was 9, and realized I didn't believe in the stuff. When I went to New York, my dad never talked about religion or went to church, so it never really mattered.
When my dad married my second stepmother when I was fifteen, things changed dramatically. She was very religious (she thought the apocalypse was happening when 2000 hit), and swayed him to become so, but not overblown. He forced me to attend church with him once when I was sixteen, and I was so appalled by the experience I told him it was never going to happen again. He was disappointed, but respected my decision.
I moved out of the house when I was 19, and my dad divorced my second stepmother a year later (she turned all of the aggression she took out on me towards him). We were living in Delaware at the time, and he wound up moving back to New York. As the years went by, he changed into becoming the most wildly religious person in my life.
My wife is Agnostic, and my younger half brother (whom I haven't seen since I was 12) ended up Atheist as well.
How religious/nonreligious is your family?
When my dad married my second stepmother when I was fifteen, things changed dramatically. She was very religious (she thought the apocalypse was happening when 2000 hit), and swayed him to become so, but not overblown. He forced me to attend church with him once when I was sixteen, and I was so appalled by the experience I told him it was never going to happen again. He was disappointed, but respected my decision.
I moved out of the house when I was 19, and my dad divorced my second stepmother a year later (she turned all of the aggression she took out on me towards him). We were living in Delaware at the time, and he wound up moving back to New York. As the years went by, he changed into becoming the most wildly religious person in my life.
My wife is Agnostic, and my younger half brother (whom I haven't seen since I was 12) ended up Atheist as well.
How religious/nonreligious is your family?
Subscribe to Atheist News! Also, check out my latest video- Mass Effect Takes On Religion
https://www.youtube.com/c/AtheistNews
https://www.youtube.com/c/AtheistNews