(June 26, 2014 at 6:10 am)Raindropz Wrote: P.S. My partner does believe in god, but he does not shove it in my face. Should I tell him I do not wish to keep going to see his family?I don't know, because I have no idea how he will react and how that would affect you. You might want to approach it by discussing how the way they treat you makes you feel, and seeing how he feels about it. Perhaps you will find a middle ground, where you visit less frequently in exchange for quietly putting up with it. Or maybe he decides it's better to talk with them about it. It all depends on the personalities (and tempers) involved.
My family is almost all Christian, but they belong to various denominations. Mostly Jehovah's Witnesses, who typically look down on every other religion including other Christian religions. But they have kept in touch with my sisters (both of who left the JW faith long ago) and with my uncle who was pretty disdainful of JWs. So I guess for them, family bonds were more important. My twin sister (Christian, one of those very liberal churches that starts with an "E"... Episcopalian?) is aware that I am an atheist and has no issue with it, but we never did discuss religion so it was never a problem.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
