Dealing With Religious Parents

Are your parents pressuring you to participate in their religious practices? How extreme are those activities?

The answers determine your options... I hope you think about this - and weigh the pros/cons to each outcome before taking any action.

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[addeykinz]

To quote Christopher Hitchens

"I'm quite happy for people to have these toys(religion) and to play with them at home, and share them with other people who WANT to play with the toys. But they are not to make me play with the toys"

In other words, i am not denying the right for my parents to hold these(utterly silly and childish) views. But i do not want to partake and be apart of their silly game.

[Maxid1]

This is very encouraging to me, being a Christian, having an atheist telling other atheists to be hypocrites. It's no wonder Christians are accused of being hypocrites so often if there are atheists masquerading as Christians. By your advice: if you have a conflict or any type of resistance, just lie to avoid it? Atheism just became brilliantly clear to me.

[archdtaylor]

So basically, lube up and bend over... summed up your vid in 5 words. But I prefer my identity be known, chances are it will come up again and again.

[Maxid1]

@Nekomedikia Lying to avoid consequences, eternal damnation aside, is a cowards reaction. If you're going to maintain a position you should maintain it because you thinks it's right. Or you can be a coward, lie and be a hypocrite. If you agree that it's ok to lie to avoid a consequence, does that mean atheists are all compromised immoral liars? Or is it just you? How many lies do you have to tell before you would consider yourself a liar? How many murders to be called a murderer?

[Nekomedikia]

@Maxid1 Well yeah why wouldn't you lie to avoid it?

If you don't then your religious parents will say you have a demon inside you...my mother was actually like that.

[Ray77063]

You forgot to mention that after you get baptized, your baptized friends will expect you to change. Insincere baptism is wearing a mask so people can't see the real you. Eventually one mask leads to another, and another, until you lose yourself completely and reject the baptism, or whatever the first step into the maze was, anyway. Why not just say that baptism is an act of free will and a public statement before God? Your parents brought you up not to lie publicly and not to blaspheme, right?

[bob1012112]

Saudi Arabian women.

[TheWhiteShadow42]

@iloveNgany That is sad that that is all you have in your life. I happen to have many loving people and friends. God is not necessary for happiness. I hope you learn that in the long run.

[Maxid1]

Religion is mans twisting of Gods truth.

[VidMasterZ]

No. This is complete bullshit. There's rebellion, and there's standing up for your (constitutional) rights. You expect everybody to just bend over and take it from the religious for our whole lives? No! What about dignity? Does the fact that doing those things make me die a little inside each time not matter? This is why we atheists must stand up for our freedom.