My Christian daughter says I'm going to hell

I am the father of a 13-year-old daughter whose mother has been taking her to an evangelical Christian church her whole life. Her mother's family is entirely Christian. I am not a Christian, and in fact think that organized religion is actively harmful to her development into a rational adult. None of my friends are Christian, nor any of my family.

Her mother and I split up right before she was born, but I have been an active parent. She lived with me for fifth and seventh grades and has been with me every summer and every other holiday. Right now, I have her every other weekend. Religion is not the only issue her mother and I have had, but until this point we have been able to compromise and get along with each other pretty well.

As my daughter gets older, however, she has started to become fearful that because I am not a Christian, I am going to hell. When I try to explain my beliefs (that I don't believe in God or a higher power), she cries. I am certainly not trying to deny her mother the right to take her to church, but I don't want to cut my two weekends a month with her short to take her back to her mother's to attend church. Nor do I want her mother telling her that I am going to hell.

It has gotten to the point that if I even try to broach the subject of religion (mentioning my belief in evolution or that homosexuals are not sinners), it upsets my daughter greatly. Obviously, this is not what I want, but I do want to be able to communicate to her what I believe.

Her mom thinks that I am denying her freedom by not taking her to church on the weekends that I have her, but I am just trying to help her see that other people believe other things and that having an open mind is a good thing.

What am I doing wrong? And more important, how can I talk to my daughter about this without making her cry?

lost cause, you should sue the mom for actively ruining you and your daughters relationship by telling the girl that people like you are wrong.

stick it in her pooper

Well if you want her to stop do it now. Point out that the Bible talks about Unicorns and the flat Earth as if they were facts.

>>3 also raises a good point.

Tell her that heaven is that heaven is for people who like the sorts of things that go in in heaven like singing, talking to gog, waterring pot plants... whereas hell on the other hand is for people who like the other sorts of things... adultery, pillage, torture, those areas...

go fuck her little pussy

Copypasta, learn 2 spot it.

Tell her that her religion is the devil. It tries to control her and rapes children. Tell her its only so they can make money and is like every other politician.

Tell her the truth.

No wait... STICK IT IN YOUR OWN POOPER

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>>7
funnies, learn to have it

>>6
tis true
only way kids learn nowadays
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Hmmm, I guess you can avoid any discussion on religion. Or....how about a 'distraction' like learning a new hobby/craft together or volunteer work?

there are "better" ways to help the world if that is what she is convinced she is trying to do.

Try to convince her of the hypocracy and many flaws of christianity. They're EVERYWHERE. I'm agnostic. I can't see how anybody could possibly believe that any of the 1000s of conceived "gods" humankind has come up with could be the real spiritual deal. That's an extremely low probability, even if (on a very off-chance) one was right at all. Simlarly, there are many, many flaws in our understanding of science and so on. Just convince her that if there is such little certainty in a divine order of any kind, then there's also very little point in wasting her valuable life on trying to follow them. As far as I can see, anybody who zealously follows any religion given these undeniable grounds must be mentally unbalanced or irrational, at the least. Bah, such a waste of time this is in itself! I'm going to do something useful.

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