I am sorry I could not post this earlier, but I have just found this forum recently and I was anxiously waiting approval for me to post this.My name is John Tenaham. I currently live in Boston, Massachusetts. I have a lovely wife, and two children: one son and one daughter.I am also a hardcore (for lack of a better word) Christian. I love my religion a lot, which is one of the reasons I joined.The second is mainly what this thread is about. I have been having problems with my son.It was two weeks ago, and I woke him up to go to church. He went, with a sleepy face on. While the prayers were being conducted, he refused to pray along. I didn't want to make a scene at the church, so I let him slide.The last time I went to church, last Sunday, he acted different. He refused to go to church at all. He would not get up, he would not take a shower, he would not get dressed. I really had half a mind to beat him, but I stopped myself. He said he had no reason to go church. I had a feeling he was saying this out of sleepiness, so I let him slide. Myself, my wife and my daughter went to church that day. My son stayed at home.The whole time I was wondering what could be wrong with him. Was he that sleepy that he could not come to his senses to go to church? It was a Sunday, and we didn't stay long enough to a point where he could not relax the other half of the day. Maybe he was confused. Dazed. Stressed.I went home, and my son was in the bathroom. I didn't know this, however, and walked into his room. I was shocked.The Bible he used to always keep on his shelf in prime condition was on the ground, with a mud footprint on it. The pages of the book were ripped to a point where they could not be repaired or read. Pictures of Satan cluttered his walls. I stood there in shock. I didn't understand what I was looking at.My son walked into the room and yelled at me for "ruining his privacy". I asked him what he had done to himself, and he said that it'd be best if I left.I told him that God would send you to hell for this sin. Big mistake.He plainly replied that God does not exist. There is no hell, there is no heaven. I stood there in shock while he was talking.I asked him about Satan. He said that Satan didn't exist either, but it was "better" for him to believe in Satan than a fake God. I started yelling at him, reminding him of the Bible and what the consequences could be. But he was blind to my talks.I snuck a peek at his textbooks, and I was outraged. He had a book about biology opened to a page about evolution. He had a book about history that told the story of how we evolved. I think this was the main part of his atheism.He has always been a devout Christian all his life. I don't see what went wrong. Taking a shot in the dark, I think his friends and even his teachers have corrupted him. I really don't know what to do, and I need help.If you need more information about the story, I will gladly provide it.Last night, we had a huge argument about the Bible. He told me that God could not create a universe so vast and complex, and that someone had to be there to create God.He said that religion was often mixed with government, and the fact that religion is corrupting his life was horrible.He said that abortion is fine, despite what I told him about killing another, because you'd rather have a baby die instead of living in a bad household.He said that God did not exist, because there was no proof.He said other things, things I don't want to repeat on this website as it would make myself and others mad.I have no answers to his questions.I doubt this is a "phase" he is going through, as he is 17 years old.Please help.-John Tenaham