I was raised in an atheist household, my family doesn't hate religious people though.I am interested in Christianity but for one I feel it would be awkward for my family to find out, and I am an introverted person so I fear being singled out if I go to a church and say I am new to Christianity.
Do it because you want to.
>>34136403Just start studying and practicing. Any trait you adopt as a Christian should make itself seen in your behavior, not your words. Your goal isn't to showboat, brag, or quote the Bible. The goal of every Christian is to imitate Christ, which means adopting a humble, gentle, compassionate and just way of life. I'd personally suggest Erasmus's Enchiridion and Kempis's Imitation of Christ as good beginner reading material.
>>34136403why would it be awkward for your family to find out? christianity teaches nothing but good values, and depending on your nationality it most likely has deeper roots in your ancestry than the atheism
>>34136403Attend church online. Go to webcam Bible study.
>>34136403start here:https://yavohmagazine.com/messianic-teachings/restoring-paul-to-the-people-of-the-wayeddie chumney is a great teacher>would be awkward if family find outyou either Love the LORD or you don't, these types of fears are ungodly, and anything of consequence happening as a result of your declaration of faith is witness against whomever they are as much as it is for yourself in doing what is pleasing before the LORD Godits better to be righteous and honor the God in question than it is to compromise with godless heathens, even if they are your family>but anon, honor your father and mother hurr durrif your father and mother are idolators, then you can't honor their present stateand they idolize a great many things having been atheist to KNOW God is the first part of the ten commandments btwbecome born again in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and make sure your fellowship in any given place is matching with zealous piety to God and His Law and His Ordinances
>>34136403I was in a similar situation. Agnostic, not atheist. My whole family is agnostic. What I did was I watched a Protestant service online for about a month just so I could get acclimated. I went to a Protestant church after about a month of doing that, attended about a year, then converted to Eastern Orthodoxy (don't become Protestant).As with the family, it was awkward for me at first because I wasn't yet confident in my belief. That was alleviated greatly when I started to learn the apologetics, and I think TAG and narrowing down theism through the impossibility of the contrary really kills. Basically, it shows that atheism is so bad that, if it were true, it would make things we know are true, like the possibility of knowledge, either impossible and/or incoherent. Through comparison of atheistic and theistic worldviews, that leaves God (the Orthodox conception) being the best answer to explain how things like knowledge are possible. Once you know that stuff, there's no reason to be insecure. And your family loves you, so you'll be alright. Look into debates on TAG. The best cope that people have against it is that they try to frame it as viciously circular.
>>34136997I meant to add, too, that the people at whatever church you decide to go to will probably be really nice. They love seeing new people, so it won't be a big deal. Some of the most friendly people I've ever met at Protestant and ROCOR churches.
>>34136403Attending an actual church is really important imo, yes it may be awkward at first but having other christians you can turn to for advice and fellowship will be very good for you
99% chance you are just an incel who wants a tradwife.everyone who knows you will see through you. everyone will know your faith is just masquerade to get your dick wet. and the whole trad wife thing is also just a cope with not being able to get a normal girl with higher 1 digit sexual partners history because she might cheat on you. your insecurity (which you even admitted) is the problem, not some religious constellation. those few christian women you will meet will require even more confidence than atheist women. because they have the same requirements for a good man or even higher as they also want a single earner household. and they will have even more suitors and among them will be only few who are not former alcoholics turned christians or near grandmas.TLDR: stop this autistic, machiavellian faith bullshit and get a new plan to get your dick wet, especially work on your confidence
>>34137075Pure projection post.Fix your life, find God.
>>34136403>introverted personStop making excuses anon if you want to be a Christian then become a Christian stop living in fear guy. Also you have to understand if your family makes fun of you or treats you awkwardly you will have the last laugh because they will burn in hell after they die and you will be in heaven with the other Christians.
>>34137111How is laughing at the atheists different from laughing at publicans like in God's parable?
>>34136403>christianityBoring. Hail odin, hail apollo. Christianity is european to some extent, but it's very much polluted by a certain desert tribe.
>>34137784Anyone who's genuinely spiritual transcends literalism and tradition and develops love for Logos directly, and Logos is the eternal principle that Apollo, Odin and Ra were always meant to represent in the form of allegory. All theologies teach self transformation and adoption of the virtues, none of them are particularly concerned with idols or names in and of themselves.
>>34136416Whose quote is that?
>>34137818The details matter too.And i would actually do to the christian church near me if i had a desire to socialize and some of the people there were my age.
>>34137784Oh wow look the "educated" feminists on /adv/ are actually raging antisemites who would have guessed? grrr I hate nazis but also Jews grrr I am a dumb woman.>>34137759>gods parableI had to look this up, I still don't get it.
>>34137923What you said is not the win you think it is.
>>34137943I am not trying to win at anything rofl
>>34137956Exactly. Christianity is for losers and slaves.
>>34137823>>34136431Meant to quote this
>>34138012I am not a Christian, I hate Christians. I made a comment about your antisemitic comment. This must be most low IQ board on the entire website or at least in the top 3.
>>34137923Luke 18:9-14 is the parable I was referring to. The Pharisee is like "harharhar at least I'm not like this bum, harharhar, thank you God for not making me like this bum, harharhar", and God rebukes him. Whereas the publican is the one that's alright, which is where the publican prayer comes from. My question was how does this not fall into the same camp of being rebuke worthy?
>>34138082You're an atheist, who denies getting his morality from judeo-christians.
>>34138040Thomas Kempis. It's from The Imitation of Christ, specifically.
>>34138115I get my morality from being a person with a brain raised in a society I think?>Judeo Christian societysure whatever have your "win" man. I'm a West European born in the early 90's. I knew literally 1 Christian guy growing up and everyone thought he was weird.
>>34138192See through the subversions
>>34138218I will do my best.
>>34138250They do it on an esoteric (hidden) level. In movies, in religions, in media.
>>34138272Ok I will take note. Could you give me a few examples so I could learn to spot the patterns or something?
>>34136712God, what a faggot. OP, there's some good advice itt, but this isn't it
>>34136997>it shows that atheism is so bad that, if it were true, it would make things we know are true, like the possibility of knowledge, either impossible and/or incoherentI’m theistic and this is absolutely retarded
>>34138353I'm referencing a theory developed by richard spencer and mark brahmin. They analyze movies and claim many have hidden pro-jewish messaging.
>>34138361He didn't explain it in detail, but he's correct. Knowledge can only exist through the comparison of the perfect to the imperfect, which means knowledge itself presupposes the existence of the perfect. For example, in order to gauge whether something is true or false, Truth as a principle has to exist. In order to determine whether a person is good or evil, Good as a principle must exist. Without a perfect form to act as the ruler, we could never know anything or make any meaningful distinctions or determinations whatsoever. This argument has been around for as long as humanity, and it's never been refuted.
>>34138361Knowledge is possible due to the impossibility of the contrary. "Knowledge is impossible" is a knowledge claim and requires knowledge to make. Therefore knowledge is possible. Any worldview that denies this or makes this impossible is therefore false. You go through all the atheist perspectives, all the moves that they can make (not that many), and that leaves theism. You go through all the theistic word views, using different apologetics, too, and that leaves Orthodoxy. God is the necessary component for knowledge. Knowledge, therefore God.
I am a Christian and I also thought that at first but my family knows now and they are fine with it.Matthew 10:33
>>34136403>I feel it would be awkward for my family to find outthey will inquire why you are now religious. be prepared to have down to earth answers without taking a long time to answers. second dont be zealous. live and let live even if you want to evangelize. this way, the shift was seamless and they dont feel worried about you or losing you (theyll be afraid youre into a cult or something)>so I fear being singled out if I go to a church and say I am new to Christianity.wont happen. idk where youre from but its very unlikely. churches always welcome anyone and everyone
>>34138369Well yeah obviously they're made by Jews. Do Italian movies have subtle pro Italian propaganda too?
>>34141577I don't believe they'd like not like me for being new, but that people would give me extra attention or something.
>>34137784>Christianity is european to some extent, but it's very much polluted by a certain desert tribeChristianity is a Jewish sect created by Jews, with holy books written by Jews, that worships Jews, and whose all first followers were Jews. It can't be "polluted" by the Jews because it is a Jewish religion.
>>34139174Jay dyer should off himself and you should too. Larping losers.
>>34141926The point is that jews do it on a much higher, sophisticated level. You can't even detect it without being educated on the theology and the myths.
>>34142050What's the larp? I literally don't know what you're talking about.
