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Yup. Just shut up about it. However, most of the time it’s the religious types that cant keep quiet. I’m from a large Irish Catholic family. I get funny looks and some unwelcome comments when friends and family ask when My kids will be baptized (usually asked soon after birth). I have 3 sons. When I say they won’t be baptized the grief starts.

I usually calmly say that I’ve never said a word about your kids being baptized. I’ve even attended the ceremony. I can respect beliefs in a polite way. The problem is my beliefs usually arent accepted in a polite way. Unfortunately, my in laws are the biggest offenders. I always remain calm and polite. Even let my MIL drag my kids to church when she comes and visits. They get over it fast (the kids that is).

I even tolerate my wife making the impression that the lack of faith and attendence in church is my fault. I can understand her not wanting to dissapoint her parents. But in ten years of marriage she’s never mentioned going to church on Sunday. She’s just as content as I to read the paper and drink coffee and then go hiking with the kids.

To each his own. And yeah, yeah I get it. Most of the people on this site think Me, my wife, and kids are on the hell express. It’s the ones who seemed pleased by this that scare me the most.

I’ll end my rant with some Heinlein:

“The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.”