I try to calmly speak to my mom about it, and I get the typical "When you're older you'll thank me, because you'll have your religion to guide you through hard times" bullshit. In a nutshell I go to a time-wasting class every other Sunday where I'm force fed ignorance. My peers laugh at the "absurdity" of other religions, but can't they see the irony? I don't see how the christian religion is magically more justified then any other religion.

Does anyone else deal with obnoxiously religious people?

In America every fucking day....

Every time I hear "hail to the chief" I am reminded of what simple bitches the cunts of religion are.

Just start fuckin with them. Ask the teacher how you should punish your friend for eating non-kosher food or why the bible allows for owning slaves. Ask if you should become an anarcho-socialist hippie like Jesus. Ask why the holy ghost raped Mary and how jaguars, gorillas, etc were contained on Noah's ark. And if all this really happened some 8,000 years ago and everything not on the ark was wiped out, how were there simultaneous civilizations occurring all over the world from China to the Americas.

Make a joke about a religion that says that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

See if they dismiss it as a stupid religion. Then laugh.

I stopped believing in god about 6 months before my confirmation.
However, I stuck with it for the huge family/friends monetary reward that awaited me. I'm a douche.

Depending on where you are it might actually be illegal for your parents to force you into confirmation.

Also as far as I know every confirmation service requires YOU to give your agreement and that you confirm your faith (hence the name). You can simply refuse or answer in the negative when they ask you 'do you believe in ice cream?' or whatever and then NO member of the clergy can confirm you.

Depending on where you are it might actually be illegal for your parents to force you into confirmation.

Also as far as I know every confirmation service requires YOU to give your agreement and that you confirm your faith (hence the name). You can simply refuse or answer in the negative when they ask you 'do you believe in ice cream?' or whatever and then NO member of the clergy can confirm you.

If the OP is at the age of confirmation, I'd imagine the parents in question would find some creative means or another to emotionally blackmail him into doing it.

If the OP is at the age of confirmation, I'd imagine the parents in question would find some creative means or another to emotionally blackmail him into doing it.

Then he needs to man up and the faith of his convictions. Sorry, but I don't have much sympathy. My parents forced me to go to confirmation classes but I put my foot down and said no to being confirmed.

It was not a happy time but sometimes you just have to make a stand.

Out of curiosity, what age and denomination are you?

I'm a Catholic (well kinda don't really fall for the dogma stuff, just what Jesus actually said...and I'm a Deist...ok weird I know), and I got confirmed at 16. I really think that they ought to push the age back to 18 when people will be much more free of their parents whims and have the added maturity. Really, I don't know any religious teenagers, but alot of people (I'm guessing) will later on.But don't go through confirmation unless you want to. (the bold is there cuz thats the important part) But the time to monetary reward ratio is awesome.

And how exactly are they forcing you?

But the time to monetary reward ratio is awesome.

Not if you're a brit and its Church Of England, then you get jack shit :(

I'm an athiest and very fucking proud to be one.

I can't understand how people live there life by a book that tells you what and what not to do.

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Not if you're a brit and its Church Of England, then you get jack shit :(

Hold on, lets me get this right, you get paid to get confirmed?

Holy shit, what the fuck is the problem, get confirmed quick!

Damn... I wish I could get paid to get confirmed :(

I'm an athiest and very fucking proud to be one.

I can't understand how people live there life by a book that tells you what and what not to do.

*waits for ZOMG, U SINNNER!!!11 replies*


You mean... Like.... The Law?

Just do it.

Most people drop Catholicism after confirmation (me).

I know that religion class is a fuckin waste, but seriously, just do it.

I'm an athiest

It is spelled atheist.

just plain out refuse, what are they going to do physically force you to go?

if you really reject christianity, then you must immediately refuse to go to sunday school, church, and any other religious events.

nobody should be able to force any beliefs on you, not even your parents, noone.

explain to them why you reject christianity and simply dont go. once its time to go to church or sunday, dont yell, dont argue, calmly tell them that you dont believe in that stuff anymore and just dont go, passive resistance style, do not move a single muscle, sit or lie down if you have to, they only way they can make you go is if they drag you there...

yeah, they will yell at you, they'll plead with you, they will try to punish you, but you must be strong willed. you must not submit no matter what they do. your parents cant hate you forever for not believing what they believe, and if they do, fuck em.

your faith is not something that anyone can choose for you, that decision is yours and yours alone.

they have already forced into christianity, they have dubbed you christian before you even understood what it was, you must not let them keep doing this you.

Just accept all the money from your relatives and then forget about religion. Seriously, you've already gotten years of Catholic school over with right?

Seriously, I wish I could accept shitloads of money for some big elaborate joke called confirmation.

just plain out refuse, what are they going to do physically force you to go?

Some Christian nutcase parents subscribe to the "spare the rod and spoil the child" theory.