Reply To: advice for dealing w/ christian dad as an athiest

Are you diagnosed with anxiety? Bring that up.

I agree that enlisting your mother for help could benefit you.

I hate to say this, but as someone who really openly rebelled against every single thing my parents wanted, it may be worth it sometimes to tell your parents less personal information about yourself. You don’t have to announce that you’re an atheist. I mean you can, by all means, if that’s the relationship you want, go for it. However, it may help you to have less friction with the folks if you are yourself, I’m not telling you not to be yourself but maybe announcing “I’m an atheist forever,” got him to pay extra church attention to you, specifically. Whereas if you’d never said that, he’s not be pushing you to spend more time at church.