Sage

I am not lying to my mom. I am just skirting the issue, trying not to have huge religious debates with her, and not provoking any conversations that I can guess the outcome of. I never went to church as a sheep after I stopped being a Christian- at least not with my parents. If my mother were to ask me what I believed, I would tell her, but she hasn't, so I don't feel the need to.

I'm not saying you should lie. I'm saying that if you don't want to make waves, don't do anything that would rock the boat. If you go home for visits, leave before Sunday (Martel and I have taken to doing this when visiting his parents) or early Sunday morning before church. If you're asked to pray, say the most generic prayer you can think of. Martel's parents still ask him to pray every now and then, and he does the most generic prayer ever. We like to laugh in the silliness of organized religion together, and when we have to do something in order to make someone else happy, we think it's funny- like a game.

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