RE: I'm no longer a christian, how do I break this to my parents?
September 10, 2012 at 11:09 am
(September 9, 2012 at 1:39 am)AspiringAtheist Wrote: I've finally gotten the opportunity to study evolution. While it was only once course, I found it had a lot more truth to it than the many theological classes I was forced to take, so I am proud to say I'm an atheist as of last year. However, my parents are both strong Christians, as well as my sister. I love them so much, but their ignorance is just painful to hear. My mom's always signing me up for Bible studies, church events, and youth group. I'm just sick and tired of attending all these Christian events whenever I have free time, since I don't even believe in God anymore. However, I have a very positive relationship with my parents, and I don't want to lose that. If I told them my beliefs, I'm afraid that I will. I mean seriously, they had an intervention when they found out I was nice to gay people. -_- Any suggestions?
My opinion, and it is just my opinion, you should always keep your relationship with your parents honest. As such, if it were me, be up front with them and tell them how you feel. Will it cause problems? Maybe. If so be prepared for it. But if your parents have any respect for your feelings and wishes they will learn to accept who you are. If not, no amount of arguing with them about it will change their minds on the matter. And in that case, you will all just have to learn to live with it. But it is my opinion that you should never keep it from them or lie to them. That only makes matter much worse. Good luck.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
