(June 28, 2013 at 11:56 am)sarcasticgeographer Wrote:My wife is catholic and goes to church every Sunday... and drags the kids, well, the ones that she's made endure sunday school. The youngest is still free from that punishment.(June 28, 2013 at 11:44 am)pocaracas Wrote: Well, when my kids ask me something like that, I just give them the brutal truth. They can handle it.
And, if they're asking, it's because they suspect something like that is going on... and it's great that they ask!
Afterwards, they usually reply with something like: I don't believe either...
Does your wife or significant other agree with your atheism? If not, how do they handle it?
Every once in a while, with no kids around, we discuss religion a bit... she's left with a lot of questions and I don't know where she goes to get them answered, but she seems to be happy with her churchgoing, so what am I to do? Live and let live.
In the end, she sticks with it mostly because of the morality imbued in the catholic catechism... (these catholics don't like when we throw the bible in their face, because that's not exactly what they follow) and it must be comfortable to believe in the big brother afterlife thing.
And she wants the kids to follow those morals...
I tell her they can follow them without the giant skydaddy detail, but... her indoctrination is in the way (her parents are the kind that pray before each meal...sheeesh!)... oh well, I just keep putting the questions in that head every now and then...
Before we became BF+GF, she was already fully aware of my atheism, so I guess she automatically accepted it as a part of me.
