u/irishlyrucked

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How do you handle religious family members?

I am not religious at all, though I was raised catholic, and my wife left her flavor of christianity years ago. My parents are still active catholics, though they don't try to get me to attend mass or talk about religion to me any more. my wife's family on the other hand, is way more religious than when my wife and her siblings were younger. They try to pressure us to go to church, and have even tried to convince us to baptize our daughter. I've tried to be respectful and firm, and let my wife handle her own family, but this past weekend had me on the verge of detailing exactly why I don't do organized religion, and the problems with the mega-church her sister's family attends.

Her sister has recently had a health scare, and guilted my wife into attending church for easter. She tried to convince me to go as well, and I ended up having to be more blunt than I would have preferred, considering she had just been released from the hospital.

I don't want to have to lay out all the issues and potentially alienate her family, but I'm not going back to religion, and I will not allow my daughter to be indoctrinated. How have you other dads handled this?

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u/irishlyrucked — 11 hours ago