{"id":1653,"date":"2013-09-08T15:34:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T05:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2013-09-08T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T05:34:32","slug":"unpleasant-family-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Unpleasant Family Discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Chance:<\/strong><br \/>\nI grew up Christian, I&#8217;m not anymore. I don&#8217;t consider myself anything, just a human.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy question is how can I deal with my family that is all Christian and talk down to me? It&#8217;s starting to piss me off, but I&#8217;m always the bigger person. I&#8217;m kind when we debate ideas and religion, but they are the total opposites. Any opinions?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s not a lot to go on here.  If your family sees you as lesser or inferior as a result of your apostasy, it&#8217;s likely because of their underlying assumptions about the nature of believers and non-believers.  You may wish to go beyond a discussion of the religious topic at hand and question their treatment of you directly, because it will very quickly lead back to the topics of faith and reason.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nComment with some extra information if you like.  How do these exchanges begin, and how do they usually end?  How do you go about being the &#8220;bigger person&#8221;?  In what ways are they unkind, and what triggers this behaviour?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Chance: I grew up Christian, I&#8217;m not anymore. I don&#8217;t consider myself anything, just a human. My question is how can I deal with my family that is all Christian and talk down to me? It&#8217;s starting to piss me off, but I&#8217;m always the bigger person. I&#8217;m kind when we debate ideas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=1653\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unpleasant Family Discussions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[32,35,58],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-arguments","tag-christianity","tag-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-qF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}