Wondering because all my family is Catholic, and they have no idea I'm anything but. When I do tell them, I will have to make sure I'm moved out, and no longer financially dependent on them (I'm 18 right now, still at home). This is because they will freak out, and will not rest until they've wept, stormed, and prayed themelves into oblivion. I'm... not looking forward to it.
Have any similar stories for me?
2007-11-18 17:09:06 · 16 answers · asked by avacado pie 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thanks Uliju, but I know for a fact they won't be cool.
2007-11-18 17:15:12 · update #1
Frederick, I don't have a penis. Nice thought, though.
2007-11-18 17:29:11 · update #2
i've been a nonbeliever for about 4 or 5 years now, and i have yet to tell my family. my friends know though, and they didn't say anything.
don't feel it's necessary to tell them. if you think that it will damage your relationship with them, then just don't bother.
i haven't told anyone in my family because they have a big mouth and i don't want my great grandmother to know. it would turn her world upside down and i won't do that to her.
2007-11-18 17:14:29 · answer #1 · answered by Miss B 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Im currently going through something similar. my dad is atheist and he knows that I am atheist and is cool with it, but my mom has no idea. in fact the other day she said "You better believe in god!" when i said something about this guy saying atheists shouldn't be allowed in the US. Anyways I don't know what advice I can give you, but I am personally waiting until i move out to tell my mom because I think she will be more willing to accept it when I go off to college. But I just make sure when you do move out you tell them, they deserve to know eventually. I wish you the best of luck.
2007-11-18 17:24:04 · answer #2 · answered by Shit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have two brothers and a sister. All three boys are atheist, and my sister is a Catholic. I'm the oldest - now 45, and we are a Catholic family. My mother was bothered by my beliefs, but she had become gradually acclimated to the idea because of questions I always asked growing up. By the time my youngest brother told her he was atheist, she simply shrugged.
So my advice is to begin weaning your family to the idea that you have issues with the faith. Eventually, by the time you "out" yourself, they'll have already figured it out and come to understand that it's just part of who you are.
2007-11-18 17:35:48 · answer #3 · answered by some_mystery_for_u 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-24 11:32:06 · answer #4 · answered by lisbon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like your in a pretty tricky situation. I myself didn't, my mom never was a church goer, such she christened all of her children, so I guess somewhere she believed. Try to find some humanist groups in your area, they might have some advice on dealing with some of those issues. Otherwise go with the flow. People like us don't have to scream it out into the world that there is no god.
2007-11-18 17:18:08 · answer #5 · answered by sabina-2004@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Luckily no...my immediate family don't believe either. Friends, we just don't talk about religion much and they are just the normal mildly religious types who rarely even bring it up.
2007-11-18 17:19:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acutally, my parents were pretty cool about it when I broke the news. It just came up casually in conversation, and they didn't freak out at all.
I hope your parents are as calm and collective as mine.
2007-11-18 17:14:06 · answer #7 · answered by Alex H 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes - my mother basically told me i was bad for being atheist. The rest just ignore it - hoping it will go away.
2007-11-18 17:14:49 · answer #8 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What does it take for you to realize that you're living in an insane religious cult? I bet they cut off the tip of your penis in a religious rite, right?
2007-11-18 17:23:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am 15
I cant tell my mother that i don't believe in a god.
I cant tell my father that i don't believe in a god.
(maybe i should change "cant" with "am afraid to")
My friends all know, but i usually don't really discuss religion until they start handing me pamphlets.
2007-11-18 17:23:26 · answer #10 · answered by Atomic New Theory 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋