(April 6, 2017 at 3:19 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: A female friend of mine had a horrible experience. Her aunt snooped in her room and found atheist literature, told her parents, she admitted that she had become an atheist, and they kicked her out of the house and cut off her college money. It was several years before they would even speak to her again and a few more before she was trusted to be around her nieces and nephews unsupervised. Her parents are Pentecostal like mine, but I was in my 40s when I came out to my father's side of the family and already lived in a different state, so it probably helped that I wasn't as vulnerable as my friend.
Wow. That's worse than my parents. I never was an atheist when I was living with my parents, but I still had an open mind about religion. I had a lot of literature about different religions and world views outside of Christianity because I loved learning about things I was completely unfamiliar with. My parents routinely went through my room and took anything like that away from me. They never kicked me out, though, so I'm still more fortunate than many others.
I don't believe you. Get over it.
