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PUSHY PARENTS!!
my mom and dad are realllly religous and they want me to be religous and i dont want to be! i need to be my self and belive what i want. i mean i talk to jesus and pray to him but i cant be saying PRAISE GOD! every SECOND!!! help i dont know what to say to them!!
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you should have a talk with your parents. let them know you're okay with being religious, but you don't like showing it so much. it's your own life, so really you can be as religious as you want. compromise with your parents. maybe if you do something religious for them, they can respect you for doing that and not make you do more than you want to. they are your parents, they love you, and should respect your decision.
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You can be as religious as you want. It is totally up to you. What you have to let your parent s know is that just because they feel one way, doesn't mean you are automatically going to feel the same way too. If they are pushing you to be like them you have to tell them that by doing this they are actually pushing you away. You have a right to believe in as much or as little as you want. There are hundreds of different ways to be religious and just because you don't take part in the same things as they do religiously, doesn't mean you don't feel as strongly about religion as they do!
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Saying "PRAISE GOD" is not religious at all; and after a while, it may start to lose its real meaning.
Religion is what you believe, and just saying "PRAISE GOD" 'every second' doesnt make you religious.
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The best thing to do is to approach your parents directly. Tell them that you do infact beleive in God but you feel that you don't have to go proclaiming it every single second of your life. Tell them that you're happy with the way you speak with God even if you're not being overly religious. Your parents will probably understand. You'd be surprised at how understanding most parents are. I hope this helped ^_^
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Tell your parents that you are your own person and that they should except you for who you are. my mother tried to do the same with me but i told her i'm not in to that and i'm not sure if i ever will be and she wasn't disappointed she just didn't like that fact that i wasn't as religious as her. so just tell your rent's you're your own person and they need to except the way you are
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