Please no religion bashing on this thread, not that any of you nice people would, but I want to put that out there. Everyone has their own beliefs and ways of getting through this life and I celebrate that, even if it is not for me.
What I am more getting at here is how to say "no" and back out of something so sensitive when I have already made the mistake of letting it get this far. This could be anything- religious witnesses, a social commitment that one regrets, etc etc.