(January 25, 2012 at 10:52 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I have to agree with the others here. If your parents aren't pushing you to go to church every Sunday, then I'd just keep quiet about it. Once you get out on your own maybe you can tell them if the subject comes up. If they do make you go to church, then it might be easier to just pretend to go along with it as long as it's not one of those crazy, fanatical, rolling-on-the-floor churches.
On this I, respectfully, disagree. It's often better to just pretend if they are pushing you to go to church, and especially so if its a crazy, fanatical, rolling-on-the-floor church. The people who attend those are often (not always, generalizations are bad) the ones who judge other denominations as lacking and pull the "not-a-true-christian" card. Coming out as an atheist to one of those types will often make you a target for more aggressive witnessing and occasionally one-on-one sessions with a brain-was-errr...I mean counselor in order to determine why your faith is weak and shore it up.
If they aren't forcing you to go, and/or the church is much more laid back then it really isn't something that needs to be discussed often.
