RE: would you tell your parents one day that you are an atheist ?
February 21, 2014 at 8:24 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2014 at 8:25 pm by Crossless2.0.)
It's been years (I'm 47), but yeah I told them. My mother is something of a cafeteria Lutheran who disdains fundamentalists and my dad is a non-practicing Catholic who I suspect is really a deist. No feathers were ruffled at the news of my atheism. My siblings too are non-believers but not as strident about it as I am.
If anything, I think my parents have accepted it with good grace. When I was about 18, a couple of JWs came to the door. I overheard my mom politely tell them she wasn't interested. When one of them nevertheless tried to make his pitch, she replied, "Look, I'm really not interested. And you should consider yourself lucky that it was me and not my son who answered the door. Good-bye." When she came back into the living room, she looked at me, chuckled, and said, "If they ever come back, they're all yours, Tiger."
If anything, I think my parents have accepted it with good grace. When I was about 18, a couple of JWs came to the door. I overheard my mom politely tell them she wasn't interested. When one of them nevertheless tried to make his pitch, she replied, "Look, I'm really not interested. And you should consider yourself lucky that it was me and not my son who answered the door. Good-bye." When she came back into the living room, she looked at me, chuckled, and said, "If they ever come back, they're all yours, Tiger."
