Potato Chips and Jesus
How my atheist mother forced me to go to church
6 min readApr 16, 2016
My mother was an atheist. She never publicly admitted it, but, for some reason, she admitted it to me several times. Despite her atheism, she insisted that all of us children go to church. She came from a Roman Catholic family, my father came from a Roman Catholic family, and they were married in a Roman Catholic Church. As befitting her, she…