How to tell parents I'm an atheist

[OGirly]

Lots of good advice in this thread, and some much better than I can give. Just wanted to give you some encouragement and support. Telling your parents may or may not be a great idea, and really only you can decide that for yourself. If it is something that is really burning you to get out then think hard on it before you tell them otherwise maybe just let it be an unspoken understanding between the three of you. When you're really young it's easy to feel the need to flaunt everything about yourself (if you're religious you're super religious, if your atheist your mega atheist etc etc). Part of developing our identities, but in reality the rest of the world doesn't really care all that much about your identity. The only person that should matter to is yourself really. As you age you become less likely to feel the need to force your views on others, or to even tell them things about yourself. My experience at least. You don't want to say something now in your youthful enthusiasm that may come back and haunt you in your adulthood (in the form of a broken relationship with your parents etc...so many of the people we see in psychotherapy are there because of parental issues so if you can avoid these do so..although maybe them forcing you to go to church will cause issues of control at a later date...time to stop, bad habit lol) So if you think telling them will cause problems don't. As far as going to church is concerned if it doesn't bother you completely then I'd recommend you continue to go until you are capable of supporting yourself simply for self preservation (economic etc). If you can though maybe do it out of respect for them. They may be silly and deluded by this whole god thing, but they are still the people who raised you.