Reply #15: I'd love to know if you're a teen or an adult. In my opinion the only way to approach this [View All]

is with respect both for your mother and yourself. If she really believes, then that belief includes a lot of things that make her afraid for you as a non-believer. She's expressing caring, but just not in a way that means caring to you.

If you're secure in your beliefs, then you can find hers interesting and some of their ideas worthwhile (there's a lot of wisdom in the book, even if it's just taken as I do, as a lot of ideas to be taken or left as fits with your own ideas) without buying into the actual existence of a God.

You and your mom are alike in your emotional reactions to the other's way of believing. I'd relax all the way around, though if your mother presses you too hard and you're not a teen who lives with her, you might practice the art of being elsewhere. If you're a teen, you might have fun reading a bunch of comparitive religious stuff and get an understanding of some of the interesting thoughts about God and religions.

Good luck.