Just remember your parents are allowed some time to adjust. At best parents are eager to accept and encourage nearly anything about their children, but you have to take into account the crazy shit they believe about what happens when you die. They believe that because of this "rebellion" you will no longer spend eternity with them. No one's perfect, and while your dad reacted like a douche, I'd like to believe that's him coping with something he has no experience with, and if you are a positive representative of atheism for him, then his opinion should change.
Embrace the "christian skeptic" role. Ask questions. Learn as much as you can about logical fallacies, the typical apologetics, evolution, etc. Make them explain to you the ridiculous things and inconsistencies in the Bible. Don't accept bullying. Make them responsible for their behaviors in conversations. Ask these questions at church. For some reason, a child asking honest, probing, and difficult to answer questions about their religion to religious authorities is woefully embarrassing to parents.
Be rational. You are dependent on your parents---don't take that for granted. Their house, their rules, no matter how stupid the rules. (Unless they are harming you, obviously.) I assume they pay for your car, car insurance, your cable, your food, your cell phone, your internet access, clothes, etc. Be respectful, but demand respect for your opinions and ideas.
Embrace the "christian skeptic" role. Ask questions. Learn as much as you can about logical fallacies, the typical apologetics, evolution, etc. Make them explain to you the ridiculous things and inconsistencies in the Bible. Don't accept bullying. Make them responsible for their behaviors in conversations. Ask these questions at church. For some reason, a child asking honest, probing, and difficult to answer questions about their religion to religious authorities is woefully embarrassing to parents.
Be rational. You are dependent on your parents---don't take that for granted. Their house, their rules, no matter how stupid the rules. (Unless they are harming you, obviously.) I assume they pay for your car, car insurance, your cable, your food, your cell phone, your internet access, clothes, etc. Be respectful, but demand respect for your opinions and ideas.
"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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