When i told my mom, she said "I didn't raise you like this!" I told her "No, you taught me to think for myself." She didnt say another word.
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Being born into an atheist family sure does have perks. Like not being traumatized by the hell nonsense as a child. Or not having to tell your parents you don't believe in magic anymore. Props to everyone who went through the whole thing. I've seen enough deconstruction content to know it's quite hard for many people.
1 month ago | 141
I have never found honesty to be difficult. My "father," a religious fanatic, had trouble coping with it, but that was his problem, not mine. I suggested he take his concerns to the Lord in prayer. I'm still an Atheist, so his prayers obviously weren't answered.
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I was kicked out by my southern baptist minister father. My mother screamed I worship the devil. I don't speak to them anymore because that's all it still is.
1 month ago | 12
There was this whole event where my Mom called her pastor and everything. Thinking back on it, I was escaping a cult.
1 month ago | 66
I never talked about religion with my parents. They both had PhDs in engineering fields and were very objective and analytical. There was the occasional saying of grace on Thanksgiving, we attended a few Christmas eve midnight masses, and my father was a history fanatic who studied the history of religion. I think they were atheists that just went through the motions on holidays for the sake of tradition. There was never a single cross or Jesus portrait on any of our walls. We NEVER attended church, except for those very occasional Christmas Eve masses. They instilled that objectivity and critical thinking in me, and I naturally became an atheist in adulthood. I feel very lucky for this.
1 month ago | 5
My aunt found out years ago because of some Facebook group I followed and threatened to tell my grandma on Christmas if I didn’t tell her myself. I said go ahead if you really want to be the one to make your elderly mother cry on her favorite day of the year. My grandma never found out and I don’t talk to that aunt anymore.
1 month ago | 11
They think, because I went through a rough patch in life, I will eventually "return" to the faith. What they don't acknowledge, I was deconstructing while I was regularly attending church.
1 month ago | 39
I never did with my parents and they are dead now. I don't regret it - they were comforted in their final days by their belief and I would not have wanted to take that away from them or have them worrying about me ending up in hell.
1 month ago | 12
Family members stop talking when I walk into a room. They tell stories about dead people giving them hugs and asking them to pray. They tell me that morality is a fixed definitive standard and then plug their ears when I tell them it's a moving target. Born to Catholic parents with 5 siblings all over sixty. It's been an uncomfortable relationship since I deconstructed decades ago.
1 month ago | 12
It wasn't hard to tell them... But the complete alienation has been quite a lesson in human social conduct.
1 month ago | 4
My parents were Atheist, but being British they wouldn't have given a monkeys whether I was religious or not.......now voting Tory would have given them nightmares......
1 month ago | 10
My parents, no. My extended family… still figuring out how to go about that😅
1 month ago | 6
I thought it would be hard, but then my mom surprised me by being very understanding.
1 month ago | 3
If the magic doesn't work, it doesn't work. I was not going to pretend. They take it too seriously.
1 month ago | 10
It was more difficult for me than it was for them. When I told my mother I was an atheist, I was sweating bullets. I come from a pretty Evangelical background. She was just like "yeah, I know. Want to come get groceries with me?"
1 month ago | 6
Brit here. I didn’t have to ‘come out’ as atheism is seen as very normal here. The level of fundamentalist Christianity in the US is regarded as a bizarre anomaly in Europe.
1 month ago | 41
My dad is a sincere and learned Christian who paid attention when the Bible warned him that even his children would challenge his faith. My lack of faith was just another step on his own journey.
1 month ago | 1
They can't accept it, they think I'll still return into that cult, but difficult? No.
1 month ago | 2
The Atheist Experience
Atheists, was it difficult for you to come out to your family?
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