(January 25, 2012 at 12:17 am)aleialoura Wrote: Honestly, I just wouldn't. Teenage years are hard enough.
This. I don't know where you are, but if you are in the US then you have like 3 years until you are legally considered an adult. I went through the same thing that it sounds like you are going through. My parents went from being hippies when I was really young, to liberals as I got older, and then flipped to evangelicals when I was like 14 or 15. Sundays went from sleeping in or occasionally going to a Baptist church with Grandma to getting up at 6 to be at the church as a family by 8 for Sunday School and fire and brimstone service. Telling my parents that I didn't believe simply wasn't an option for me (also, my dad was fairly horrible). So I found aspects of the religion that I could enjoy and threw myself into those for appearances' sake. For me, it was music and acting in the productions. I started hanging out around the bikers. Any chance I got, I volunteered for the daycare so that I wouldn't have to sit through church. Things like that. And then, when I was 18, I started living my own life and extricated myself from the whole mess.
There are a couple of other things that happened to me related to the church, and I'll be typing all of that up by way of introduction later, but the gist of this post is:
tl;dr do whatever it takes to keep the peace at home. Find something that you can enjoy even in the churchy context that keeps the appearance of also being churchy yourself. Distance yourself from the whole mess over time.
