I'm Coming Out!!! Pt. 2: A Storm Is Coming

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dsage01 said:

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.

No, no mixed religion household. Don't have open-minded enough parents to go with something like that. If you'd hear how they hold non-Eastern Orthodox Christians in contempt, you'd understand why I'm afriad to tell them. I'll conme clean when I'm on my own and independent. If they don't accept me then that's their problem. I'll be able to ignore them at that point, but while livign with them I can't do that.