I think seeing yourself as the black sheep, re-enforces that stereo type and encourages your family to see you as that. I would treat it like a love/hate of broccoli. Your parents love and encourage God, you tried it, and don't agree, so just ask for less broccoli in the house, when you're around. /2 cents from a theist
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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