Why My Mother Makes Me Sick

  I was on my way home from getting a haircut, asking a few questions about the census (i had forgotten this already happened a while ago), when she asked me "well, what would you put down differently?" I calmly told her "Atheist" thinking that you put down your religion on the census (which is rather stupid, considering this lets Christians continue to say that America is a Christian nation, with no backing). She said "first, you don't put down your religion, and second of all, you're CATHOLIC, not an ATHEIST." That's when I got pissed. However, I didn't start bitching and moaning, I simply said that, "yes, I am an atheist." she continued to say i'm a Catholic (which i believe is the worst branch in Christianity, no condoms, no premarital sex, no abortions, however, raping a child is alright), and she soon changed the subject. I went upstairs to get on my computer to listen to theamazingatheist, and my mother found me listening to him, resulting in her saying,
  "I KNEW IT! IF YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TO THAT BULLSHIT, YOU WOULD BE A CATHOLIC!"
  This obviously, is wrong. I became an atheist around the time I just started listening to theamazingatheist, and started listening to his videos dissing religions AFTER I became an atheist. I then proceeded to give her legitimate reasons for Atheism, her just bulldozing them, yelling "NOPE, ITS THE GODDAMN MEDIA!" not in those exact words, but the point came across. As I showed her Darwin's Finches, she flipped shit.
  "THOSE ARE THE SAME BIRDS! JUST BECAUSE THEY LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT, DOESN'T MEAN EVOLUTION IS REAL!"
  I told her that eventually these birds got to the point that they couldn't mate with the other ones, because they developed into a species unto their own (note: I never once yelled during my argument, however, my mother yells at me whenever I say "I disagree"). She still disagreed. I told her it was in my science text books. She still disagreed. Then, she pulled the "Well, wouldn't it be great if you could see your (insert dead relative here) again?" and the "Well, if i'm right and you're wrong, you go to hell. If you're right and I'm wrong, I lose nothing." arguments. Now, the first one hurt. she was talking about my brother, who died tragically in the hospital after suffering a seizure induced from a car crash. I still managed to tell her "Yes, I would, but I know that I won't.", barely not crying. After I went to the bathroom to regain my composure, I answered the second part, telling her, "yes, you would have lost something. you would have lost valuable time that you can never get back."
  She continued to yell for another half an hour, and I went back to my stumbleupon of the Atheist/Agnostic category, and theamazingatheist videos.
  And that, my friends, is why my mother makes me sick.

Why I became an atheist

You see, I became an atheist at the age of twelve. I was watching theamazingatheist a lot right before I took up atheism, so I think that he played a role in my turn to atheism. I started pondering the question "How could God possibly exist?". When I decided on "He might not", I became depressed a little bit, but got through it with the help of a harmless plant (not trying to sound like i'm bragging about it, just stating a fact) and became an agnostic. After this, I found that there were several other atheists, agnostics, and deists at my school, who I immediately took to, making them my friends. I began pondering where I came from more and more often, and soon read about Richard Dawkins, Charles Darwin, and such, and decided to take the leap to atheism.