A Recovery from Faith - On Family

Forsaking Faith

Heather and Christine both discuss how they told their families about their deconversion and how their parents’ relationships affected their deconversion and influenced their own conception of family. They also talk about their acceptance of the fact that their family members are still Christian and describe how they deal with that now.

Heather hasn’t yet come out as a non-Christian to her parents. Her sisters know, but she had different experiences telling them because while one is also deconverted, the other still has strong faith in the Christian God. Heather passionately discusses why she has trouble telling her parents about her lost faith.

Christine discusses her mother’s desire to be an evangelist and how that influenced her upbringing. She highlights how she separated herself from her family after deconversion and describes how when she deconverted she wasn’t able to talk to her family or close friends about it, and how when she finally did discuss it with her mother, her mother refused to believe it. She has since reestablished a relationship with her family, but it is nonetheless a distant one.

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Thank you for opening clips:

Missus Snarky - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLnUOvUuMLOaoYLLS8j3c5g

Godless Iowan - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtZhXy31sCAMd5Js_k29khA

And for the closing song:

Luke and Tonia Emrich: https://freshla.me/