My daughter “came out” to me as a Jesus believer, is attending a Young Life group at her college and is getting baptized next week. I feel like a failure and am also terrified for her, but don’t know what to do shy of “ordering her not to,” which surely won’t work. Feel helpless (self.atheism)
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I was still theist when they were born, they did CCD for a while, and several reasons led to my atheism and their being pulled out. My son is 22 now and is an atheist, pretty anti-religion and in just a plain “yeah it’s obviously nonsense” way.
I never “taught” them atheism. Apparently, my daughter never really stopped believing but it’s ramped up lately. She’s away at school and is now in YL. Her IG posts hinted at some things, and I texted my son to see if he knew how it had evolved. Apparently he basically messaged her and was like “dad is concerned.” Dummy lol
Well, she called me today and “came out” fully. She tried to play it off, it’s “non-denominational,” etc, but then said it’s really become a “focal point” and that she’s getting baptized. All I could do was reassure her that I didn’t think less of her and that my concern would simply be her well-being and safety, and that would be the case even if her religious belief didn’t exist.
BUT I am really scared YL is a fucking cult and she’s going to make a decision that can’t be undone. And I can’t think of anything to say to her that won’t sound like an edict (which will only push her farther in, probably).
So I just sit here scared and hoping it passes and trying to think of anything that may happen that may cause me to have to take some kind of stand. Argh
