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I have a similar situation. My whole family is staunchly religious, I have never been. I didn't really tell anyone I was an atheist until I was in college, out of the house, 1200 miles from home. When I told my family, their original thought was that "atheist" was such a terrible word, and they still have trouble with it today. The point is, while they will get used to it, they will never get over the fact that you don't believe in the same things they do. Especially because of the things they believe about the afterlife.
Give it time. It's not the same as homophobia. I don't really think atheism is a choice, but your mom not wanting to read atheism memes on her FB feed is not the same as the hate and discrimination that QUILTBAG folks experience. If you believe that this life is all you've got, don't waste any time being angry at your mom for not adjusting immediately, or not wanting to read about how stupid religion is on her newsfeed.
I have a similar situation. My whole family is staunchly religious, I have never been. I didn't really tell anyone I was an atheist until I was in college, out of the house, 1200 miles from home. When I told my family, their original thought was that "atheist" was such a terrible word, and they still have trouble with it today. The point is, while they will get used to it, they will never get over the fact that you don't believe in the same things they do. Especially because of the things they believe about the afterlife.
Give it time. It's not the same as homophobia. I don't really think atheism is a choice, but your mom not wanting to read atheism memes on her FB feed is not the same as the hate and discrimination that QUILTBAG folks experience. If you believe that this life is all you've got, don't waste any time being angry at your mom for not adjusting immediately, or not wanting to read about how stupid religion is on her newsfeed.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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