[Serious] The Family Atheist

[Duty]

Hi and welcome. Interesting story and thanks for sharing...I'm a second/third/nth generation atheist/agnostic so can't really relate much, but one thought which struck me when reading your story is that perhaps your family's "devastation" at your atheism might well, in part at least, be born of their own doubts about the faith. To use an analogy, they're grasping at straws and just lost a dozen more, although, most likely, they'd never admit it.