Atheist/Agnostic Folks: When you told your family you didn't fukk with religion, how'd they take it?

Regine Hunter

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around the time I came as a Agnostic there was a young black dude that boarded a plane and tried to set off explosives that he had hidden in his sneakers.

well my dad my looked me in the eye and told me I reminded him of that guy. I went five years not talking to him over that.
damn...that's fukked up.
 

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Thanks for Sharing. Yeah...I don't know how my father would take it seeing how he's a fire and brimstone preacher. Pretty sure they haven't caught on that I'm dead silent and my eyes are open during "family prayer time" because they're babbling so loud with their eyes shut tight.

My mother's father became an atheist a little before she became a full on christian before meeting my father, and I always heard her say "I wish I could've brought my dad back to Christ before he died. I don't even want to think about where he is" and I'd be thinking "I'm sure he's fine chiling in the afterlife whatever that is... Basically, the way they are IDK if I should tell them.

My mom told me she just want me to get an education and come to lord...

Don't tell your parents, a lot of religious motherfukkers want their kids to go to heaven and shyt more than go to Harvard.
 

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My mom told me she just want me to get an education and come to lord...

Don't tell your parents, a lot of religious motherfukkers want their kids to go to heaven and shyt more than go to Harvard.
yeah you're absolutely right.
kids going to the shyttiest schools, but christians will make sure god will get every cent they earn and will turn a blind eye to their pastors pulling up in a shinny new benz. a fukking shame.
 

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yeah you're absolutely right.
kids going to the shyttiest schools, but christians will make sure god will get every cent they earn and will turn a blind eye to their pastors pulling up in a shinny new benz. a fukking shame.

I just let my family rock but my mom told me that one year she tithed 5k talking about god will provide...I just was like :what:
 

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I asked my folks questions about religion etc. I'm a PK also, and they have they're suspicions about me

But at this point they don't give a damn. I'm 22 and pretty much grown at this point:flabbynsick:
 

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My mom is agnostic and growing up I thought she was wrong for it but years later I've come to be the same :yeshrug:
 

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I'm tired of having to pretend I still believe in something I haven't in a long time. Being a preacher's kid specifically, I know if I told my parents they'd either just yell at me or go to the extreme and possibly disown me because to them I'm "subscribing to a life of sin" but on the other hand, now that I'm gradually getting financially independent, I feel now is a better time than ever to let them know.

How did y'all break it to your family, if you did?
I'm Agnostic and my parents know I'm not deep into religion. However, I do believe in a God or whatnot. Just don't know what though. I just try to be a good person. So, I'm an Agnostic-Theist.
 

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Me and my brother just talked about this yesterday .

He was with my dad last week and my brother kinda mentioned to my dad that he thinks the bible is bullshyt. he said my dad looked at him like :jbhmm:


Then said that he agrees :ehh: my brother was expecting a argument and was pleasantly surprised
 

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At first they were like "We're gonna be :umad: when you're burning in hell and we're :lawd: in paradise. Mom's was :damn: of course. I don't talk about it unless they come at me with that bullshyt so they learned to miss me with that nonsense.
 

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They didn't make a big deal out of it. How could they? My mother was raised catholic and my father was raised buddhist (Im pretty sure he believes in a higher power even though he doesn't currently practice any specific faith). If they didn't force their religion on each other, then why would they try and force it on my siblings and me.

Since there was no one definite religion in my house growing up, they allowed us to explore either Catholicism or Buddhism. What they didn't expect was for me to just dismiss all religions.

Oddly enough it took me until I was 28 to eventually start researching Buddhism, which I only started so I could have a better understanding of how to deal with stress and anxiety. The six paramitas are something that just seems to make sense to me. Mindfulness.

I still hold the belief that there is no observable evidence of a higher being, but Ive gained a new outlook on life and how to deal with whatever obstacle is placed in front of me.
 

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my father is Muslim and African. Having a agnostic son is pretty horrible.
Wasn't the shoe bomber a Muslim tho :heh:

OP depending on how religious your parents are it might fukk em up
If they're not constantly shoving it down your throat it might be easier just to go with the flow. They'll prob get the idea and might even ease up

If you're trynna have a talk with them on a some real talk tip that you think is for the greater good of ya'll relationship then you might encounter some pushback, but who knows they might surprise you and have a productive convo. Probably not tho based on what you said bout your parents. Either way if you go this route just be mindful about shytting on their believes and values just to try to prove a point. I mean you're an adult at the end of the day but I'm assuming you wanna maintain a relationship with your parents. It might end up not working out b/c they can't accept it, but at least it's not b/c you don't accept them and their believes.
I personally believe anything (religious wise) that makes you a better person is good . I have friends/family with various degrees of beliefs but I don't call them out unless I think it's harmful to them in some way. If they ask you then of course you're not required to lie to appease them, but also vice versa
 

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I never really flat out told them.

When I was 18 I left for college and just stopped going to church outside of special occasions (funerals, weddings, etc.). Got invited to go occasionally but after enough excuses they eventually let it go and stopped asking me to go. :yeshrug:
 

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Fortunately for me my mom is the one who broke away from the church plus my dad never gave a fukk about religion to begin with so I didn't have to explain myself to my parents. As far as my grandparents go I just told 'em "look I'm not interest in all this".
 

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Wasn't the shoe bomber a Muslim tho :heh:

OP depending on how religious your parents are it might fukk em up
If they're not constantly shoving it down your throat it might be easier just to go with the flow. They'll prob get the idea and might even ease up

If you're trynna have a talk with them on a some real talk tip that you think is for the greater good of ya'll relationship then you might encounter some pushback, but who knows they might surprise you and have a productive convo. Probably not tho based on what you said bout your parents. Either way if you go this route just be mindful about shytting on their believes and values just to try to prove a point. I mean you're an adult at the end of the day but I'm assuming you wanna maintain a relationship with your parents. It might end up not working out b/c they can't accept it, but at least it's not b/c you don't accept them and their believes.
I personally believe anything (religious wise) that makes you a better person is good . I have friends/family with various degrees of beliefs but I don't call them out unless I think it's harmful to them in some way. If they ask you then of course you're not required to lie to appease them, but also vice versa
I think he was. I think he was trying to say I sounded extreme or something. Idunno there were a lot of reasons I stopped talking to him. That incident was just the tipping point. Im not even anti religion even tho I feel we as a people would be better off with out it. Ive never tried to force my beliefs on no one. I actually hate dicussing religion. As far as my parents go we just dont talk about it. We good now tho.
 
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