RE: New to the forums; question about parents
March 1, 2014 at 6:41 pm
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2014 at 6:42 pm by Faith No More.)
One thing to remember is that seeing others believing something contrary to your own beliefs, especially something that is so critical to your identity, can feel threatening, and the brain will make your consciousness jump through a lot hoops to protect those beliefs. When your mother sees you're an atheist, she most likely sees her own beliefs and worldview being threatened, and being open to your beliefs would be embracing that threat. It's instinctual for her to shelter herself from that.
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
