I've already posted something similar to this on another website, but I want to here too since I'd like all the advice I can get.
I don't live with my father and his wife, and only see them on weekends. I instead live with my grandma(my mom died when I was a baby), who I love very much and is nothing like them at all. She's an incredible Christian with very strong faith.
My father and his wife don't really care about anything in my life, never ask about friends or relationships(been with a very nice boy for a year now but they don't want to hear about him bc his family is catholic-it's messed up, I know), and only show any reaction when I tell them I've gotten a good score on exams, b u t they grill me on things like if I have or haven't done Sunday school, and even if I tell them I have they make me do another lesson (which is annoying, I just wish they'd trust what I say for once), and are incredibly disappointed in me when I don't know the answer to their questions relating to the bible (ever so sorry I couldn't quote every single bible verse since the day I was born, dad). They're making me resent religion as a whole, and I don't want that to happen. How can I have a good relationship with religion with parents like this? I know not every Christian is like this, my mother's side of the family has definitely showed me how good a Christian can be, but even so, it's incredibly hard for me to believe in what they do when it makes them act the way they are towards me and other people. They're not even just like that to me, but make fun of others in the church behind their backs when they ask questions they deem as 'silly' or 'obvious' and say they shouldn't have ever been baptized if they didn't know stuff like that. I don't know if you've ever been around people like that, but in my opinion they're using the bible as a reason to gossip and pick fun at people who are just trying to learn how to have faith. Even their own children. I'm currently agnostic, I guess, but would like to at least learn to have a good relationship with the idea of religion. Any advice would be really appreciated.
I don't live with my father and his wife, and only see them on weekends. I instead live with my grandma(my mom died when I was a baby), who I love very much and is nothing like them at all. She's an incredible Christian with very strong faith.
My father and his wife don't really care about anything in my life, never ask about friends or relationships(been with a very nice boy for a year now but they don't want to hear about him bc his family is catholic-it's messed up, I know), and only show any reaction when I tell them I've gotten a good score on exams, b u t they grill me on things like if I have or haven't done Sunday school, and even if I tell them I have they make me do another lesson (which is annoying, I just wish they'd trust what I say for once), and are incredibly disappointed in me when I don't know the answer to their questions relating to the bible (ever so sorry I couldn't quote every single bible verse since the day I was born, dad). They're making me resent religion as a whole, and I don't want that to happen. How can I have a good relationship with religion with parents like this? I know not every Christian is like this, my mother's side of the family has definitely showed me how good a Christian can be, but even so, it's incredibly hard for me to believe in what they do when it makes them act the way they are towards me and other people. They're not even just like that to me, but make fun of others in the church behind their backs when they ask questions they deem as 'silly' or 'obvious' and say they shouldn't have ever been baptized if they didn't know stuff like that. I don't know if you've ever been around people like that, but in my opinion they're using the bible as a reason to gossip and pick fun at people who are just trying to learn how to have faith. Even their own children. I'm currently agnostic, I guess, but would like to at least learn to have a good relationship with the idea of religion. Any advice would be really appreciated.