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Boy its hard being friends with religious people

MetalMat

MetalMat

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I love hanging out with my friends, but two different groups are pretty religious and they are always *concerned* about me not being religious. I just tell them that I am catholic and love porn, drugs, alcohol and rock n roll. Even after all that they are still good buddies that go to church every wednesday and sunday.

Anybody else deal with this?
 
I have people that are friend with me and I go to church and am pretty active in that community. I also drink with them and party though so meh.
 
Boy its hard to be friends with atheist people.

They are always *concerned* that you are a sheeple and try to disprove what you believe it. I just tell them that I am mormon and they go all crazy about it.

Anybody else deal with this?

The problems not with the religion, it is with the person. Get more understanding friends rather then complain about them worrying for your soul.
 
I have very few religious friends. The ones that are religious are so casual about it and never bring it up and you really wouldn't be able to tell they are. Unfortunately most religious people I've run into are very pushy and always bring it up. I tell them they are bat shit crazy and that usually wraps it up.
 
I'm not afraid to stand up and say I am religious. I will not push it on people though, not my type of thing. I have discussions about it with the gf but that's about as far as I go.
 
No one (family and friends) knows that I have turned Agnostic/Deist/I don't know how to categorize it. I want to believe but I simply can't. I choose to avoid the topic and just nod along. Sometimes I will explode in a rant and the topic stays buried for a month and people get the hint, "Holy shit, he's fallen."
 
Originally posted by: amdskip
I'm not afraid to stand up and say I am religious. I will not push it on people though, not my type of thing. I have discussions about it with the gf but that's about as far as I go.
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Thats fine, but if you come over to my place and see porn and a bong don't complain about it like my buddy did. I went over to his place and did not complain about the stuff over there. Im just venting cause he got into an argument over the ordeal.
 
Originally posted by: MetalMat
Thats fine, but if you come over to my place and see porn and a bong don't complain about it like my buddy did.
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Oh yeah, when I started smoking pot it really irked some of my friends. I told them God can't be a cruel power-tripping nut to torture people for eternity simply because they smoked some pot.

They never quite got my point. /shrug
 
Originally posted by: Cogman
Boy its hard to be friends with atheist people.

They are always *concerned* that you are a sheeple and try to disprove what you believe it. I just tell them that I am mormon and they go all crazy about it.

Anybody else deal with this?

The problems not with the religion, it is with the person. Get more understanding friends rather then complain about them worrying for your soul.
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pretty sure its the religious folk who are proselytizing, not the atheists..you know, since we don't actually believe in a religion
 
Originally posted by: Taejin
Originally posted by: Cogman
Boy its hard to be friends with atheist people.

They are always *concerned* that you are a sheeple and try to disprove what you believe it. I just tell them that I am mormon and they go all crazy about it.

Anybody else deal with this?

The problems not with the religion, it is with the person. Get more understanding friends rather then complain about them worrying for your soul.
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pretty sure its the religious folk who are proselytizing, not the atheists..you know, since we don't actually believe in a religion
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There are plenty on both sides who talk too much. And there are even more on both sides who don't talk that much but think the other side is dumb/retarded/won't listen to logic/etc and given the opportunity will say so.

Sadly with every point of view there are plenty of retarded/angry/dumb people who share it with otherwise normal decent folk (this I imagine is a reflection of the 'bad' people, not the belief)
 
My best friend in high school at the time was atheist. He and I got along swimmingly. He then went into the Marines and was shipped overseas. Because of this ordeal, he found religion while overseas. This wouldnt be a big deal but now everything that I do that goes against Catholicism (im Catholic) or Christianity according to him means that I am below what a human should be. Apparently I am now the scum of the earth and don't deserve to call myself Christian because of my actions. It really hurt our friendship now that he's found religion, and I am saddened by it. I basically lost my best friend, so I know how you feel OP.
 
Why's it okay to group religious people together and generalize about them? I know my fair share of nutjobs who are religious, but I also know a number of very cool/interesting people who are religious.

It seems to me like saying something like "Man, I can't stand religious people" is really a failed attempt of saying "Man, I know a number of religious people I can't stand."

It would not be PC to say, "Man, I can't stand black people" or "All Mexicans are useless," so why is something like "Religious people are completely ignorant" considered okay, when obviously there exist objective thinkers who are theists (although I'll agree they are not the majority)?

Thoughts?

I'll also add that I'm sure we all have encountered plenty of atheists who are difficult to get along with. Why don't we then make the same mistake of overgeneralization and say that all atheists are jerks?

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Well I guess I'm pretty owned. Off to take a gander at said thread..

To compound the extent of my fail, I was unable to find the thread. Lol. Off to do something I care slightly more about..
 
OP has a valid point, and one which is one of the topics of discussion in a course I am taking this semester.
 
It isn't bad to say all religious people are bad, compared to "I hate black people" or "I hate mexicans", because religious people amount to a whole hell of a lot of races and backgrounds. Aside from religion, which is very questionable to begin with, there is nothing that bonds all these people together.

Its the equivalent of a person saying "I hate people". Granted the person saying it is an asshole but it doesn't make them politically incorrect or anything.
 
Originally posted by: MartyMcFly3
It isn't bad to say all religious people are bad, compared to "I hate black people" or "I hate mexicans", because religious people amount to a whole hell of a lot of races and backgrounds. Aside from religion, which is very questionable to begin with, there is nothing that bonds all these people together.

Its the equivalent of a person saying "I hate people". Granted the person saying it is an asshole but it doesn't make them politically incorrect or anything.
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I'd rather be an asshole than politically correct. Or maybe being politically correct makes one an asshole. Hmm.
 
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