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[quote=Anonymous]We lived 10 hours away from the rest of my family up until last year.  My husband and I are agnostic, and my side of the family is deeply religious Christian Conservative, climate change denial, homophobic, you name it.  I love them though, and they are great to my children.  My brother and his wife were transferred to Fort Belvoir last year though, and it is getting very tiresome.  My husband and I have never told them what our personal beliefs were, we have never taken our children to church (obviously) and as my children are older - 11 and 13 and theirs are 5 and 9, we have been careful not to discuss religion at all in front of any of them.

Now they are living here.  My SIL is homeschooling for religious reasons and I know she wonders why I subject my children the dangers of public school.  She is too nice to say it directly, but she now wants to pray before family meals, she offers to take my children to church with them on Saturday and Sunday (so that my husband and I can have private time), and I came home to find religious magnets on my refrigerator.  While we were visiting them in their new house last weekend she took the kids outside to plant some seeds - harmless right - while I was in the house painting the kitchen.  On the way home my oldest asked me if I was ready to accept Jesus because otherwise we were all going to hell, and he would be so sad if I went to hell.

I really don't appreciate this.  I know if I bring it up then I am going to come out with my own beliefs, which will lead to tears and more prayer on their part.  My husband says that I should just tell her and my brother to cool it with the "Jesus stuff" and let it go.

For some reason it is making me so mad I can barely sleep.[/quote]

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