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My mother use to be an atheist so if was no issue when I came out and my household is very secular anyway, with my Christian parents never taking me to church and leaving it all up to me whether I was religious or not. Since my brother, cousin, most of my mates, pretty much the majority of people I know are now atheists and have discarded their parents religions it wasn't a problem for anyone else either.

Only you have a good idea how they'll react so only you can really know what to do. But you'll have to tell them eventually, and I'm guessing it will be painful. But its also painful living a lie.