I'm debating not speaking with my dad's side of the family unless absolutely necessary. My parents divorced when I was young, and over the years I've visited my dad's family a lot, but I've grown tired of their religious, brainwashed selves. They are converted Jews that believe Jesus was God... I forget what the term for that is.

Every time I go over there I end up having to go to church with my father and the family if it is over a weekend, even though I'm 23 years old. I also have…

It's difficult to explain how I became an atheist. I never had a eureka moment, was never in a cult, and I didn't grow up with atheistic parents. In fact it was the opposite, the 'moments' were spanned out over the course of a year, I was in several wonderful churches, and I grew up with religious parents.

During a part of high school I was an obsessed Jesus Freak, in fact, and I say this to illustrate I was definitely a believer. I'm confident lots of my friends and family can attest…