GC's condescending, churlish reply aside...
I know what you're going through to an extent; my family is concocted of fundamentalist Southern Baptists and Catholics, when I came out of the atheistic closet I expected World War III... but what I got was acceptance from my parents, proselytizing from my southern baptist preacher grandad, arms-length distance from my aunt and uncle and World War III from my ridiculous sheltered step sister who called me atheist trash among other things. It went better than expected!
So you never know what's going to happen, but you might want to try telling the truth because family can surprise you.
On the other hand if you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that your parents will flip absolute shit and do something dramatic then do what you need to to survive and bullshit your way through this man.
I know what you're going through to an extent; my family is concocted of fundamentalist Southern Baptists and Catholics, when I came out of the atheistic closet I expected World War III... but what I got was acceptance from my parents, proselytizing from my southern baptist preacher grandad, arms-length distance from my aunt and uncle and World War III from my ridiculous sheltered step sister who called me atheist trash among other things. It went better than expected!
So you never know what's going to happen, but you might want to try telling the truth because family can surprise you.
On the other hand if you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that your parents will flip absolute shit and do something dramatic then do what you need to to survive and bullshit your way through this man.