Do you attend religious rituals for your family?

[Thor]

but like at thanksgiving i dont bow for grace or crap like that.. sometimes i stand in the kitchen

This is something that bugs me as well. When we go over to my brother-in-law's house for a holiday they always pray prior to eating. I always make it a point to engage myself with buttering my bread or fixing my napkin while they talk to their imaginary deity. I don't want anyone (particularly their kids) to think I'm participating in this nonsense. One time, one of the kids noticed I wasn't praying and he pointed this out to his mother. She just shushed him and told him to eat. I was hoping it would lead to a discussion of why I wasn't praying, but I'm sure the parents didn't want to go there.

I'd love to ask them WHY they're thanking this deity for the food they're about to eat. They would probably say that "God" is responsible for the food on the table. I would respond that if "God" is responsible for providing them with food, that must mean that he is also responsible for denying it to others. Therefore, he is responsible when people starve to death. After all, he is either responsible for all of it, or none of it. So, if he is responsible for the food on your table, he is also responsible for denying food to people who starve to death. And if he's NOT responsible for people starving to death, he's also not responsible for the food on your table. So why are you thanking him?

I think this would be an interesting discussion...