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So, in my family, mainly everyone is Catholic.

I feel like an outsider because I just recently had an epiphany that the Christian faith, and religion in general, just isn't for me...

Well, I told my family that I still believed in God, but I didn't believe in religion because I believed in simplicity and don't really like fundamentalism.

I don't like how priests, popes, bishops, .etc speak for God. It just doesn't seem right. I also don't like it when we all come home from Church and my parents are talking about what the priest said during the homily, or something like that, but they never ever say what God said at Church.

I just feel really tied down and confused right now.

I told them about this and they totally flipped out. They gave me the whole, "While you live under this roof, you'll believe what we believe" lecture.


What should I do? I feel as though I should be given at least a little portion of freedom.

I'm just so confused right now.

No one can deny your beliefs. Just as, you should not doubt those of your parents. You've said how you feel and you should not say anything more about what is wrong with their religion of choice. However, you can let them know that you will be respectful of their beliefs. They need to understand that they can not invest a belief in you if you have ones of your own.

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