What is going on everyone and welcome back to the channel. I hope you're all doing well.

Today I've got for you a very interesting post from our slash best of Rediter updates

where this man asked for advice as to how to apologize to his son for kicking him out for being gay.

Without further ado, sit back, relax, subscribe to the channel if you are new on whatever platform you are listening to me on.

Let's get into this one.

Okay, so we're going back to May the 14th, 2016 for the start of this.

So, I'm new to this sub, but I decided to use a throwaway because I'm embarrassed about what I did to my son.

11 years ago, I was a very conservative Christian.

I was the type that would go to church with my family every Sunday and actually look forward to going. If you would have told me that I consider

myself atheist in the future, I would have laughed in your face. I'm not proud of a man I used to be,

but at the time, I really thought I was being the best person I could by living as a Christian and following God's rules.

My son was outed when he was 16, and I reacted the way you'd expect a conservative Christian father to react with hate and anger.

At the time, I didn't think of it as hate, though.

I thought of myself as a good and loving father

for being so upset that my son had chosen a sinful lifestyle. I forced him to go to counseling,

but it didn't work. I know now that's because it never works, but at the time I blamed my son

for not trying hard enough. I eventually kicked him out of the house because I couldn't have him

there as a bad influence on his younger brothers and sisters. I never contacted him again and he never contacted me or anyone else in our family. His mother died two years later and because of the way she died I started to question my faith. I started researching Christianity and science

on my own and eventually I stopped going to church. I gradually became less conservative and now I

consider myself atheist. I've been thinking a lot about my son the last couple of years. Every time I

think about him, I feel like crying and to be, I've shed a few tears while writing this.

There's nothing I can do or say to make up for what I did, but I found his address online and I also found his Facebook profile.

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