(June 7, 2013 at 9:37 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I'm kind of in a similar boat. I'm atheist, my wife is still Catholic, and her parents are also Catholic and right-wing Fox News watching Obama haters. (I'm not kidding about Fox News, it's on at their house every time we go over) But I don't pressure her to give up her religion, though she often tells me that she would like for me to go to church with her. I do on some occasions, like Christmas & Easter (which sucks because that is when Catholics have the looooooongest masses). But she's not a fanatical Catholic and often skips going to church, or some times she might go alone and leave the kids home with me.
I'm in an identical situation except for the my wife never asks me to go to church(Except when we were going to through IVF, she asked me to go pray with her, which is extremely ironic when you think about the fact that she's Catholic), and my wife never goes to church except on the big holidays. Although, the other day my father-in-law was flipping to CNN and MSNBC in an attempt to hear different viewpoints, so there's still hope for him.
As to the OP, why does it bother you so much that your wife holds spiritual beliefs? Did it ever occur to you that the problem lies not in her beliefs but in your inability to accept them?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
