Do I sound like the "devil" to you? My mother thinks I speak like the devil...

[abaris]

It's easy for me to say, since my parents were only mildly religious at best. It would have totally gone against their grain to put anything down to god or to judge people based on that. If anything, my father had too much compassion to be a really good businessman. Which he was. My mother, surviving him for six years, grew a little more stubborn in her 80ies. But also not in a religious way, just the usual xenophobic bit off and on.

Just try to evade the topic, if it's that much of an issue and if you think they're important to you. I'm the last one to discard family because of different opinions, but steering clear of certain subjects goes a long way.