Atheist With a Christian spouse

[Chan790]

20. One of my close friends is an atheist married to a practicing Catholic.

She's only nominally Catholic though, practicing because her parents wouldn't really accept it if she were more openly agnostic. (She's certain there is a higher power but what she cannot know.) He's atheistic with a nod towards consideration of agnostic theism and an apathetic god. All four grandparents are very very Catholic...leaders in their parishes, make pilgrimages, bring communion to the infirm, donate massive amounts of time and money, leaving all their worldly possessions to Mother Church.

Mostly my friends ignore the problem...the one issue that would exist has already been resolved. They're raising any future kids as Catholics. They don't feel they have a choice...their parents will insist and if that fails indoctrinate their kids behind their backs...so they feel it's better to raise them as religious so they can explain when they're old enough that mommy and daddy are skeptical.