Coming Out About My Unbelief to My Sister

As I've said before, I'm really growing weary of the charade I have to keep up in order to remain in the atheist closet. I had been talking to my fellow ex-fundamentalist bloggers on Twitter about whether I should come out to my sister, who has always been there for me in my life (she even helped to raise me as a young boy, long story there I won't get into right now.

On Sunday, I was debating whether or not I should come out, but then lost my courage at the last minute. Well, finally, Tuesday night, I finally worked up the courage to finally come out to her.

My sister in recent years, has gone from the Independent Fundamental Baptist cult to what would be considered more mainstream beliefs in the fundamentalist/evangelical world, (beliefs more along the lines of the Southern Baptist denomination).

I'm glad she's out of the IFB, she fell into that group because of the influence of the IFB ran "school" I went to in my elementary years, she was there too, though because of the age gap between us, she was in her high school years at the time, and fell prey to them pushing Hyles -Anderson College as a great place to go.

Still, I wish she would give up fundamentalism altogether, especially for the sake of her kids, right now, she is homeschooling her kids with ACE, the same awful curriculum I grew up with. I talk to my nephew and two nieces on the phone, and when I'm visiting her in northern Indiana , and it kinds of breaks my heart to see how they just seem more childlike, than other children their age.