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Thank you for the heartfelt reply. It's definitely a bittersweet thing. My grandparents (specifically my mom's parents are who I'm referring to) are starting to have more and more health problems so it feels like the final decline is here and we just don't know how fast it is yet. So I try to spend as much time with them as I can, but the religious guilt is overbearing. It's not the first time it's been a problem with them either, my mom cut contact with them for a while when she changed to a new denomination they didn't agree with and were really mean to her about it.
Things got better for a while after we patched that relationship, but in their sunset years here they have slipped back into using religion and now politics as a weapon (one guess who they are vehement supporters of, and they can't seem to understand that we would rather just not talk politics with them). We have a much healthier and richer relationship with my dad's mom who is a much more tolerant and kind person, as are my parents who have never made me feel less a part of the family for not being religious.