For the in the closet atheists and agnostics, if your family ever found out you weren’t Muslim anymore and no longer believed in Allah’s existence, how would they react?

M31 in the USA and come from Bangladeshi immigrant family. I’ve been an ex-Muslim since I was 14 and my family has no clue. I no longer live with family and have moved out for 9 years now and I just enjoy my life freely. I’m open to my friends that I’m not Muslim and don’t hide that fact. But I still cannot tell my family.

In a situation where my immediate family did find out, they would be shocked of course, go crazy, and most likely tell the rest of my family about me. It would be an entire family scandal and I would most likely be shunned forever. My parents and family would claim I was possessed by “Shaitan”. They would question my friends and the people I hang out with to figure out if they were an influence. They would ask where I’m getting these ideas that “Islam isn’t true and Allah isn’t real”. They would also claim I’m becoming a “Christian” and following their culture as they associate Western culture with Christians.

My family comes from a poor rural village in Bangladesh. There is literally no purpose in life other than Islam, and that’s also all my family understands about the world. The idea to them that “God isn’t real” and “Islam isn’t true” isn’t something their mind can comprehend. Considering they have been taught their whole life from the moment they were born that Islam is life and the truth, they would be wondering how in the world I could have reached a conclusion that Islam isn’t true. They also don’t understand science, so they would also ask where the world came from if Allah didn’t make it.