Christians, how are you treated by your atheist relatives who have found out you don't follow their beliefs?

Answer 1

I used to live with a family that was like my own...foster family...they were Shamanists and I was and still am a Christian. The father would openly ridicule me and tell me that I worshipped a dead person and that Jesus was a criminal...he would mock me saying that he will never believe a god will fall out of the sky to pick me up...it was quite evil. Since that time, he has suffered three strokes, and is now somewhat disfigured. He has forbidden the rest of his kids from becoming Christian, and they are waiting for him to die so they can openly become Christians. They secretly pray for him to change his heart.
To say an atheist has no beliefs is to say an evolutionist does not agree with Darwin's Theory. An atheist is simply someone who does not believe in any god. Shamanists can believe in gods, or they can be atheists. I know some shamanists who believe in a god who created living things but left them for the spirits to manipulate so he could take a long vacation. So they don't believe in him but serve the spirits banquets every month so they can avoid illness and poverty. They ridicule the Christians they know because they pay tithe and offerings at church. They don't consider their monthly banquets cost so much more...they have to buy the sacrificial animals, the food for the other guests...and the Shaman fee. They have to prepare doss paper (goss? I forgot what it's called in English...) and soft drinks as well as alcoholic beverages. Tithes and offerings each week only cost a fraction of the banquet and shamanist ritual. Plus, if someone gets sick anyway...they have to pay for a special session of the shaman, and all the animals that will be sacrificed. The Christians use their medical insurance, and it actually works most of the time, whereas the shamanist families lose family members to some of these sicknesses, they go to the doctors after the thing has not been cured by the shaman....

Answer 2

Well, let's see:
1. My husband was HORRIBLE when I first became a Christian. He made fun of it constantly. Now, just a few months later, he's changed a lot. He went to church with me on Easter, and is considering going back, and a couple days ago he got his own Bible.
2. My mother-in-law implied that only ignorant people are religious.
3. Other atheist and agnostic relatives (the few that there are)were belligerent and incredulous when I told them. Most of them still treat me like I'm an idiot.

I have friends who were raised in atheist households who became Christians later in life. One of them is treated TERRIBLY by most of his family.

Answer 3

The lack of response suggests that atheists do not have young relatives who become Christian. Interesting that the tendency only works the other way.

Note that atheists DO have at least one belief: God does not exist. A person who neither believes in God's existence nor God's nonexistence (but believes one or the other must be true) is an agnostic.

Answer 4

Oh my, it is as though the universe revolves around them. They have a rather pompous air about them. Have you ever met someone who is polite and disrespectful at the same time? Highly educated, but then, it is academia that pushes the atheistic ideas onto our society. My relatives have a way of politely letting you know that anything or any ideas one may have of a spiritual nature (and just about any thing)is just inane. Some I have met have an interesting way of speaking. It is hard to explain but it is sort of like a pause and a hum during a speech. Also there is a little backwards laugh. While trying to appear cool, wise, and classy, they put themselves into a little box and they all look the same...foolish. Gotta love 'em and must avoid falling into the same stupid trap of being pompous and having a feeling of superiority over them. I guess that is a major difference...with their belief system they don't have to care about us, but, God assigned us to love them. Mmm

Answer 5

First of all, atheists don't have beliefs. To answer your question, atheists are generally used to other people not seeing things for what they are so why would they treat their relatives in any special way?

Answer 6

Yer Funny.