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I'm so worried I'll go back😭💔

I'm 21 and I still live with my parents. I don't know how I'm going to get out. And I'm worried that I'll eventually go back to thinking that the Bible is inerrant, that being gay is a sin, etc. The only person who knows I'm not a Christian anymore is my youngest sister who's 14. And she doesn't try to force her beliefs on me. She says that I'm an adult and it's not her place to change my mind. She's also my only IRL friend. Actually, I think the anti-LGBT stuff is my number one reason why I'll never go back. I started deconstructing about a year ago when my mom and older sister said some really bad things about my underaged cousin (she was 14) and even compared her to my groomer, and then I realized that staunch conservative Christians are not very nice. I mostly stopped believing in November when I realized my parents were abusive, but I still had a lot of work to do. This is gonna sound silly but in February I decided that my parents' view of queer and trans people is barbaric because there are a few singers I really like who are queer or trans and I was like "You know what? THEY ARE NOT GOING TO HELL." In March I was finally able to accept that I'm bi (which I've known since I was 17) and also got over my fear of swear words. But please, how do I stay strong when living with extremely religious Trumpies who spout their views at every turn? It's not safe to tell them that I'm an atheist now. I mean, when I was 18 I went back to believing it was a sin to be queer and only fully changed my mind very recently. Am I overthinking this?

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