Parents forcing a christian convention on me - how to keep sane?

[Faith No More]

I'm getting worked up because it sounds like you're telling both him and me that we should tell our parents we're atheists and that it's somehow bad that we're not doing it. I told you, I'm not letting them control me and I won't do that, but I just don't think it's worth all the problems that coming out would cause. Once I'm actually independent, I don't have to pretend anything.

What kind of autonomy do you have at 16? Is it really worth going to war with your own family and having yo live with them openly disapproving of you?

You said your household was semi-religious and that god wasn't stressed much outside of church, so I think it's safe to assume you don't understand the situation. And you don't know my family.

Well, then you're reading way too far into my statements.  I've done nothing but advocate that a 16 year-old needs to assert themselves to parents about who they truly are.  I even said explicitly that how that was done was up to the OP.

Sure, my household was only semi-religious, but that doesn't mean I didn't experience over-bearing parents that had my life planned out for me.  By the time I was sixteen, however, I had asserted myself enough that I was able to be who I wanted to be without them feeling like they had the right to tell me who I was going to be.

All I've been saying is that 16 is the age where it's time to assert who you are, and you're going to have to ruffle a few feathers to do that.