Atheism and Your Spouse: A How To

Saturday 04 October 2008 at 10:41 am Let's face it, religion is a touchy subject for a whole lot of people, and it can be difficult to have an open, honest, and rational conversation about it sometimes. Whether that's fair or not is certainly up for debate, but let's say that you've already decided that you can't reasonably continue to believe in the religion that you used to (or was raised to) follow. You've long since shed any beliefs as a theist, at least privately, and the existence if God seems like an illogical assumption for one reason or another. Now dealing with those issues in your own mind can often be a challenging and time consuming process, but letting your spouse (and possibly your in-laws) in on your beliefs can be a very delicate matter. So, now what? What do you Do? How do you go about telling them? (more)