Dealing with Religious Family

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It seems to me that when a family is being like this, they are sending the message that it's more important to them that you share their beliefs, than you are a good person who still loves them. I don't know if pointing out such a thing would be helpful. It's really sad for people to put religion above actual decency and the love for your family. The other route I suppose, if they make it hard, is to debate them. Watch lots of videos, get tons of arguments together and point out (politely) the sheer absurdity of it all.

For example, are they creationists? If so, they are denying heaps of scientific knowledge based on a crusty book's say so. If they are not creationists, then Adam and Eve is at best allegorical, and original sin never happened. That means the main purpose for jesus, to take this sin from us, is redundant. It just becomes a bizarre theatre where God comes down to earth and sacrifices himself to himself in order to satisfy himself that he can change rules he himself made, because he has to give himself a reason to do so, as he refuses to just do it himself without all this weirdness.

That's just, like, the warm up act. I could go on all day hehe.

I really hope you can find some kind of compromise with your family. Maybe agree to just not talk about religious things, and concentrate on being a family?