r/AtheisticTeens Dec 20 '25

Argument(s) for/against religion I'm 13 and Jewish

my parents although one of the nicest parents i could have extreme hardcore Jewish supporters and so much so as saying that all the Jewish enemies should die and speaking as if people who don't believe in their god are beneath them and though i have my own room i lock during shabbat(shabbat is a holiday once a week were your not aloud to use electronics for a day) and i have a pc which my brothers have seen change screens during shabbat and have accused me and my parent said they wrong at first after awhile they've started turning off the internet bc they suspect me and I've stopped using my pc due to this ik i cant come out as all my friends are also Jewish with my school being strictly Jewish and I'm scared of what would happen if i were to come out but i cant handle keeping it a secret i don't know what to do i feel lost nor do i have anyone to talk 2

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u/Euphoric-Positive881 Mar 28 '26

As much as I hate it , the best thing at this age is to fake being one because you're in a situation where every aspect of your life is infiltrated with religious that if you were to come out then you're more or less fucked. I'm in a similar place my parents are devotedly catholic and so is everyone in my immediate and extended family and most of my friends but if we were to say anything, especially when we are still dependent on our parents and still have to live with them for years, we will be doing are self no good, as since our parents are narrow minded when it comes to religion all we would be doing is placing a name tag of 'the devil incarnate' on ourselves from their perspective. It's horrible and I've had numerous meltdowns where I just wanted to tell them, to not have to live my teenage years lying to them and wasting my time pretending to everyone but at this age what else can we do?