have you told your parents...

[WalterMitty]

yes i have.

sadly i sometimes think that they view my atheism as just a symptom of my liberalism.

[Ebowed]

Actually they found out from my posts here, but I've since acknowledged it.

[Sopranos Republican]

Not an atheist, but I certainly wouldn't if I was, hell my folks would flip out if they found out I believe in evolution.

[tpfkaw]

Yes, and they're both atheists too.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I'm surprised "not an atheist" doesn't have an "(abnormal)" following it.

[rejectamenta]

I was raised without religion by an atheist mother and a vaguely Catholic father, so I'm guessing it was always sort of assumed.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Not an atheist, but I certainly wouldn't if I was, hell my folks would flip out if they found out I believe in evolution.

Wha...? I thought that you were raised by lapsed Catholics or something like that.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Yes.  My mom doesn't think anything different of me and my dad is completely with me.  I actually didn't know he was so anti-religion until we got into a discussion about it one time over mojitos at the shore and he was happy to hear I was.  

I would say that my mom thought I was just being a rebel for a while b/c it's in my nature, but I think by now she understands it's central to who I am; and when she really thinks about it, she understands that I was an atheist from the very beginning.

[JerryArkansas]

i'm not so I didn't have to, but my mom would flip out if she found out I am considering converting to mormonism.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

i'm not so I didn't have to, but my mom would flip out if she found out I am considering converting to mormonism.

How would "Uncle Bill" feel about this?

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

i'm not so I didn't have to, but my mom would flip out if she found out I am considering converting to mormonism.

How would "Uncle Bill" feel about this?

Bill's probably an atheist like most of educated American royalty. 

[JerryArkansas]

i'm not so I didn't have to, but my mom would flip out if she found out I am considering converting to mormonism.

How would "Uncle Bill" feel about this?

Don't worry Hockey, I'll probably be  Agnostic by the time I am thirty.
Bill's probably an atheist like most of educated American royalty. 

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm not an atheist and even if I was, I'm like Matt from VT, my parents would flip out.  It was hard enough telling them I am a Democrat (or was at the time, and still considering rejoining the Dem Party) and voted for Barack Obama not once, not twice, but THREE times (including the 2008 Primary).  That was hard.  I sure as heck wouldn't tell them that I was an atheist if I were one. 

[opebo]

I was raised without religion by an atheist mother and a vaguely Catholic father

I was raised in a cane-break by an old mamma lion.  Ain't no high tone woman make me walk the line.

[Sopranos Republican]

Not an atheist, but I certainly wouldn't if I was, hell my folks would flip out if they found out I believe in evolution.

Wha...? I thought that you were raised by lapsed Catholics or something like that.

No, my whole family broke from Catholicism long before I was born. I really wish I was raised by Catholics, since they go to one of the most fundamentalist protestant churches possible.

[windjammer]

I'm not an atheist.

Hey guys, it's France, you can't imagine how atheism is strong here. It's when you're religious it's really a surprise...

[H. Ross Peron]

Not an atheist, but I certainly wouldn't if I was, hell my folks would flip out if they found out I believe in evolution.

Wha...? I thought that you were raised by lapsed Catholics or something like that.

No, my whole family broke from Catholicism long before I was born. I really wish I was raised by Catholics, since they go to one of the most fundamentalist protestant churches possible.

What denomination is it?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Not an atheist, but I certainly wouldn't if I was, hell my folks would flip out if they found out I believe in evolution.

Wha...? I thought that you were raised by lapsed Catholics or something like that.

No, my whole family broke from Catholicism long before I was born. I really wish I was raised by Catholics, since they go to one of the most fundamentalist protestant churches possible.

Wow. For some reason I assumed that "broke from Catholicism" meant a slide into apathism, not a slide in the other direction. Especially given your social issue positions.

[WalterMitty]

I'm surprised "not an atheist" doesn't have an "(abnormal)" following it.

sadly it is perfectly normal for humans to make up fairy tales to explain complex things.  it has been done since the dawn of civilization.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yes (well, I'm an atheistic-leaning agnostic, but still)

[Hash]

I told them and they were like "yeah sure why not". They said they didn't give me a 'religious education' and something about how religion provides morals, but it's not like they ever instilled any religiosity in me or are any more religious than I am. In short, religion is not something they care about.