January 25th, 2012
Open Question: Im an atheist, how should I break it to my Christian family and friends?
Ive always been an atheist but never knew it until about a year ago. It all started when I was in kindergarten or 1st grade. The teacher told us to write down a question we wanted
answered by the end of the year. I wrote “where did god come from?” as I read my question to the class everybody just kind of sat there. Staring. Like I had opened their minds to something a first grade mind can’t comprehend. The teacher then wrinkled up my paper and sent me out to the hall. The next time was when we were saying the pledge of allegiance and I proceeded to say “why do we have to say under god?”"what about the people who dont the same god as us?” I was sent the hall again. Then when I moved to a new town in 6th grade, I kind of lost all my self esteem and didn’t make any REAL friends until about 8th grade. One day I remember we were at the mall in a Barnes and noble, we were just walkin down the isles looking at stuff when one of them says “hey, look at his book. The theory of evolution. What a load of crap.” then I say “I believe in evolution, it makes more sense and explains things better.” they both continued to stare at with that wtf is wrong with you look. After I started to go to church with them and started learning things about the bible, none of it seemed logical to me and as hard as I tried to believe. I just couldn’t.
So what I’m asking is how am I suppose to break this to my family and friends without them hating me? Their my best friends and we’ve been friends for years now. Something like this would be a huge shock to them. What did you guys do?
