How do you deal with a religious family?

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Well I am a preachers kid and I was in a similar situation as yourself. Being a decent apologetic, and rather known among my Christian circles and little bit on the internet. I eventually woke up one morning and realized I was not a Christian anymore nor did I believe. The trigger was a simple debate that made me examine the evidence and I realized the evidence simply was not there.

It took a while for me to sort of come out to my father, which we still talk theology. However, he was more accepting and actually apologized for the fact the church never gave me an accurate portrayal of how Christians should have acted. Case and point I cannot come out to my mother as it would devastate her and it is a pressure that I wish no one had to feel. I mean fear that your family will choose faith over tangible family is beyond me. I would do as I did, I loved my parents whom loved me dearly and valued that over merely telling my personal beliefs. I am an adult and I earned the right to withhold some information from them. That is some of the weighing of options I did, and chose the relationship as more important than a stupid philosophical belief. However, if the question ever came up I would not lie.