do you get a lot of flack for being in another religion?

Question

im a protestant and my ex's parents and, whole family actually, is catholic..they frown upon my religion and they wanted me to convert. they said that God will be happier or something..

Answer 1

TRY ATHEISM...................

NO ONE BOTHERS YOU..... YOU ARE YOUR OWN MASTER.......

Answer 2

Alllll the time, and my family doesn't even fully know I'm atheist. All they know is that I just don't go to church. Far as they know, I'm just a "lazy Christian". Oh, I get it on the nose all the time, even got flak when I WAS a regular churchgoer. Like I wasn't "good enough".

It's mostly one very mean and nasty aunt that has it out for me the worst. My dad is like that, too, even called me "wrong" to believe something I once believed in regarding religion and a whole bunch of other b. s. to where I don't even talk to him about religion anymore because it always ends up in a loud shouting match. I have a missionary cousin who's almost as bad as his mother, who is always sending me "reccommendations" for religious books, which is just his way of digging at me.

One book was a huge arguement about why I should be a Christian and the most recent one was pretty much his thinking that I had a "horrible" life because I had forsaken God, so I was being "punished". For the record, I have a great life, a happy life, with no regrets, so the idea I have a "horrible" life is untrue and unfounded. He probably thinks that way because I keep to myself and don't spill every little detail of what I do every day of my life.

He's the kind of person(as is his mother, you can see where he gets it from) that thinks if I don't talk about it, I'm avoiding it because things are "bad" in this or that department, be it work, school, church, life in general, whatever. In reality, I just like to keep to myself. It's my business what goes on in my life, not theirs. If I want to share, I will. If I don't, well, I don't.

I've got a nice long list of things like that that have been said or done to me whether I was a believer or not, so I've taken it on the nose since childhood. Don't feel bad. Your ex's family, if they're all Catholic(and I'm assuming your ex was as well), that's part of their beliefs. I live in an area where it's predominantly Lutheran or Catholic. I've had Catholic friends and family, been to lots of Catholic weddings.

Catholics would like non-Catholic spouses to convert when marrying a Catholic spouse and also want any children(whether the non-Catholic spouse converts or doesn't) that result from that marriage to be raised Catholic. It's not you. It's just their way of thinking. They have a right to their opinion, you have a right to keep your faith. ;)

Answer 3

Many Catholics are like that but that goes against their own teachings. Many believe that the Catholic religion is the one and only, true, Christian church. There is much evidence that, that is true. At least, that it was the first Christian church and all others came from it. It is to bad though that one can not simply be accepted as a Christian and let it go at that. In my own mind a Christian is a Christian, one either believes or does not believe.

I had the same problem sometime ago and it lead to my divorce from my wife, whose family was Catholic. What one needs is a test, right away, before beginning any relationship to see what will cause problems later on. Most of us don't do that, and suffer the results. Good Luck.

Answer 4

I'm an agnostic and occasionally I get flack because of it but mostly from people who do not know me well never family and friends.

Each of us has the right to the beliefs that are most comfortable to us. If being Protestant is for you then don't buckle from pressure to change - you won't be happy if it doesn't come from inside of you.

Answer 5

My faith -- Eastern Orthodox -- gets flack from some Portestant groups because of some of our religious practices, but I realize that these people are not representative of all Protestants and that most of their arguments are based on a simple misunderstanding. I've also never gotten any personally, and I have a lot of friends and acquaintances who are Protestants.