Welcome to the forums, glad to have you. Sounds like a sad story, but an all too farmiliar one around here. I don't discout your experiences, they're common; however I hope that you can keep an open mind and see that not all religion is used as a weapon (or means of control) and rife with hypocrisy. Be glad your family joined you in your atheism, lots of people in here have divided families (or live in hiding) because of their beliefs.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
