Regret

[Bob Kelso]

What's done is done. You cannot change the past, but you sound like you're trying to work towards a better future.

Don't live with regret. It's a useless emotion that won't change a thing for you.

I wish you good luck and I hope your brother comes around.

Pay attention to Fidel on this one, sound advice there.

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I understand your feelings about not wanting to alienate, or be hated by, family. The entirety of my family is theistic (Southern Baptists or Catholics the lot of them), and I was concerned about this as well. At first.

I met a lot of disbelief, anger, and debate over my atheism. I handled it by keeping my cool, explaining myself and defending my decision rationally, and intelligently. The best thing you can do is to explain yourself matter of fact, and educate yourself (about fallacious arguments in particular, because trust me you're going to face a lot of that shit if you intend to be upfront about being an atheist).