I had to tell my parents, who are mildly Christian based, that I had converted to the Wicca religion. It wasn't nice and pretty at the start, and I had to deal with a load of bad stuff coming from them in the first days.

Eventually they grew to accept it, because that's who I am and what I believe, and they (as I) found that there is no reason why the two beliefs couldn't co-exist.

My grandparents (from my father side) were another whole story. They are fervent religious people, they have a gigantic cross on their backyard and have had priest do mass on their house. I was called child of the devil, witch, Satan himself and threatened by them. 

Since then I haven't talked to them, if they chose not to accept me for what I believe then it's their loss, not mine. I will always respect them and accept them for their choices, even though their attitudes really go against what the Christian religion supposedly represents.

I think being a Wiccan would have a much more profound effect than being an athiest.

Like I'd be much more scared of telling my parents I'm a Wiccan than an athiest, since Wiccans are misconstrued as satan-worshipping crazy people while athiests are viewed as crazy people.

You're probably right, but I kinda thought that Wicca being a rather unknown religion here in Europe, especially Portugal, that the reactions wouldn't be as strong as they were. 

As I explained things to my parents further, they began to comprehend slowly why did I convert to Wicca.

 Unfortunately things don't work that way when people already have a close-minded formed misconception, be it for Wicca, Atheism, or pretty much everything else (Buddhists in my country are seen as Yoga bald headed crazies >_>)

Oh hell no. You can't hate on Buddhism.

They love everything. How can people hate them!

I had to tell my parents, who are mildly Christian based, that I had converted to the Wicca religion. It wasn't nice and pretty at the start, and I had to deal with a load of bad stuff coming from them in the first days.

Eventually they grew to accept it, because that's who I am and what I believe, and they (as I) found that there is no reason why the two beliefs couldn't co-exist.

My grandparents (from my father side) were another whole story. They are fervent religious people, they have a gigantic cross on their backyard and have had priest do mass on their house. I was called child of the devil, witch, Satan himself and threatened by them. 

Since then I haven't talked to them, if they chose not to accept me for what I believe then it's their loss, not mine. I will always respect them and accept them for their choices, even though their attitudes really go against what the Christian religion supposedly represents.

Wait... wut.. what do you mean with that? Whats with Santa?

Luckily for me my parents aren't overly religious. My mother follows the various dogmas, but she leaves me alone. I'd say they'd accept you for who you are, however, I've seen people to stupid things, especially in the country we live.

I have to ask what do your parents do that makes it so hard to pretend you are religious?