| sapphi_snake said: UPDATE: Today I heard a conversation my parents had about a protestant family that lives in my building, after my little sister played with their child. After hearing what they said about them, I'm now sure there's absolutely no way they'd be OK with me being an atheist, so telling them is just a bad ideea right now. Guess my charade must continue... |
I have a question are you mixed religons? Because I am half sikh and half christian and my parents aren't really that strict about religons. Sure when I was younger like around 12-14 my parents made me to go to the church really often but now that I'm older they don't force me to do stuff anymore. Well I don't know how old you are but I'm 17 and my parents know that if they try to limit me or make me do stuff that I feel hesitant about doing I'll just drift apart. If I tell my parents I wanted to be an athesit they would argue with me and say that I shouldn't give up my religon or I'm just mad cause of something but after a while if I keep saying I wanted to be atheist and giving them tons of reasons they would let me do what I feel is right. We all know that there is the emotinal blackmail parents give but you should do what you want to do or what you think feels right. You may make your parents happy by praying everyday but does that make you happy. Surely one day your parents might find out that you want to be an atheist what will you do then? What will you do if they ask you why didn't you tell us that you don't believe in any sort of religon? Your parents will always support you the most if not then try tell your teacher or proffeseur maybe even a close friend that you can trust and you both can go and convince your parents. If your really scared that they will be mad about you telling them that your an atheist think about what happens if you hide it from them. They will fell rejected and vent out more anger on you. So I think it's best for you to tell them now before it's too late.
