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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I come at it from another angle, but it might be useful to you. I used to wish my atheist relatives would stop with the anti-religion snark, the dumb jokes, and all the rest. But I raised my kids to be tolerant of different kinds of belief and also tolerant of unbelief, and to have a solid grounding in our own values. We never confronted them, although it sounds like a good option in your case. The thing is, now that my kids are teenagers, they look on these relatives' snark as being ignorant, in the sense that these atheist relatives are factually wrong about what goes on in church, what people believe and don't believe, and so on. (Doesn't hurt that the atheist relatives in question are a pretty selfish bunch generally, refusing to help with dishes, think you should wait on them hand and foot, talk about themselves endlessly, et cetera.)  So whether or not you decide to confront SIL, give them the tools so that they can enter the real world and face this sort of thing without having you around.[/quote]

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