You are under no moral obligation to share your unbelief with anyone. It need be no more than your own private mater, and there is no need to feel you are being dishonest in any way by not telling people about it.

Most of the people in most of the churches, probably do not believe, but they are not in many cases being honest with the one person who they do have an obligation to tell, which is themselves, you are over that. If religion is not true, then there is no personal harm in going through the motions, a none existent god is not going to look into your heart and punish you for your lack of faith, only a real one could do that, and no one else has that right to play god by asking you what is in your heart.

I never bring it up. What's the point?
Never bring up politics either.
The fact I stopped drinking years ago certainly helps!

Right there with you. Not fully out. Evangelical family and friends. They're all getting a clue, talk by talk, as I honestly express views not based on Christian teachings. I decided to handle things in this gradual way.

Congratulations on breaking free of religious dogma!

The important thing is that you are a free thinker.

What your friends make of it is their problem, not yours.

Anyone who does not accept you as you are is not a true friend. IMHO

If this is a relatively new found knowledge...I would not take on all my family and friends at once. Allow, yourself to be who you are in your own mind, until it does not matter what others thinks or believes. It will be less of a battle when you must claim your freedom from religion and a god, to those around you, when the subject is brought up. We are not against others, but are in support of ourselves.

Live your life, so long as you're not being forced into anything you have no need to tell anyone anything you believe. I don't bother telling fools that I believe they're fools. Well... mostly I don't

Unless the family is very active in their church and expect you to participate,how much need is there to actually discuss your non belief? Let them have their inklings and just live your life.

You are far more than the sum total of everyone's thoughts, opinions, and ideas about you.

You are your own person, live free and be happy.

How about ifyou just talk about other things?

1. NONE of anybody's business what your OR their beliefs are
2. Boooorrriiinnggg!

Do what you feel comfortable with...if you can live with this situation that’s fine, but if it becomes an imperative that you openly wish to state to your family you no longer believe, then you must do so. You cannot place the happiness of your family above your own, if they love you they should be able to understand that.

First, be safe.
Second prepare for them nagging at you.

Welcome. I hope as time goes on you find the strength and confidence to be open around them.

I simply ignored my family and went online. I now have an atheist YouTube channel to help those like us.

I was never in the closet. I made no bones about the fact I was and am Atheist. If they can't accept that you are you don't need them in your life. I learned a long time go flush toxic people down my life's toilet.

Back when I was pretending to be one of them, my attitude was that my personal beliefs are "none of your damn business". I retain that same attitude now. The only time it would come up is if one of them tries to push me into a corner. Then I come back with my claws out.

Welcome.

1. Welcome.
2. Don't bring it up.
3. If they are close to you they will figure it out eventually.
4. You're not in a closet, you are open and free and have returned to reason, the natural state of all human beings who are all, without exception, born free of any brainwashing.
   Relax and live the best life you can live.

Sometimes you have to tread your own path. It takes to go against the "herd". Congratulations. Please don't regret, move forward and embrace a future which is rooted in reality, but still loves fiction

I encourage you to be hope about it, unless they are aggressive and angry. Then it might be better to stay closeted.

You and me both. I have not come out to my family and I'm afraid to. I always went along with them to our Ceremonies out of respect for my grandmother and mother. That probably explains the headaches I always had? I agree this site is awesome!

I'm an activist, so many things get talked about. I do not debate people. Facts are enough. It is not logical that a perfect god decided we would all get here through incest and this would also be why we need him. Also, if Job got back his wife and children in the end it would appear they were resurrected way before Jesus. The perfect book of the perfect god is a fraud.

Politics gets equally as bad. Know something about that man and what he says to see exactly where he is taking you. I have help. I read books. Some of them written way before our current regime. It also helps politically to realize who is in office and who is not before you start the distraction.

Welcome. We talk about religion and politics here. We can talk any Godshit here.

We are not an app yet, still just a static blog/website.