Would you stop or not be friends with some one of a different religion?

i think it all comes down to respect.. and some people just cant respect that part of a person sometimes which is so ignorant!!

I agree completely.

i know.. i think every one should have their own spiritual beliefs but i highly doubt that we need religion a lot of the time.. it causes too many wars and its suppose to do the opposite!!

Exactly. I am a very spiritual person, but I am not religious at all. Religion is so ironic. It's such a great idea, but not realistic because of human's destructive and competetive nature. We dream of world peace, but we create world wars.

Woah... that is a tad extreme isn't it? Anyways, it is their loss. No biggie. Plenty of friends in the world out there.

well we all grew up and were in this christian type cult and we all moved away from each other.. some of my friends parents made their own churches of christianity (which i want to note that they were not cults) and some of the other just went to a different church.. well my dad was a pastor but i have seen so much in my life and my dad is a radical and kept the thinking of where we had left.. i cant agree with that and dont fit the religion anymore based on my beliefs.. i never told any of my friends this when we talked again but they found out anyways.. some told me to not talk to them anymore.. i gave them a few years and tried to say hi again through their parents because i heard they were becoming more open minded (they went from dressing like amish people to like marrying and hanging out with people covered in tattoos and piercings which i figured meant they were more open minded) so i figured if they were being more accepting of people like me that had gone to their church that maybe they would realize i was the same just minus the church.. nope their parents said i was evil also.. other friend went more fanatic than the cult and would grill me all the time and damn me to hell.. i figured with most time would heal and they would "grow up" (this was happening when i was like 20ish so i figured maybe they hadnt found their own true identity yet away from their families and considering our background with the one place) but nope.. couldnt talk to them at all and if i did 5 minutes till im burning in hell and whats wrong with me changing my beliefs speech.. i just gave up and realized who they really were which is narrow minded and ignorant.. what sucks is that their families are still friends with my parents who are still religious so i have my parents thinking its ok they ditched me too since i was raised to not have any non christian friends.. so my parents support them and not me.. it was hard lesson to learn and compared i grew up in so much crap wrapped with religion i still have to remind myself that its their problem and that i tried and didnt abandon them and my beliefs shouldnt matter.. apparently im the only one that grew up and decided against things and at least i know i gave them several chances to where if they had seen that they were totally horrible in it that they could contact me.. and if anything that proves right there that i was the better friend in not letting religion stop it.. at least on my end..

I have a very dear friend who happens to be mormon. She and I do talk about religion occasionally, but she is very accepting and very positive and she NEVER questions my beliefs or tries to convince me she is right and I am wrong. She is happy, so I have no reason to question why she believes the way she does. She IS the minority though, there are actually people who become decidedly unfriendly because I am not religious. Ugh, it is disgusting to tell the truth. People who are non religious tend to be more open, LESS discriminatory, less judgemental, and more accepting. Is there anything better than that? I think not.

i know people tend to think i hate christians because im not one anymore but i think out of all of them i know maybe 1% are people that arent pushing and being judgmental etc.. so that irks me when people say im being discriminative on that religion when im not a judgmental or racist person but just pointing out what i see! i know every i didnt want to see a religious movie or do some activity my parents would say i was choosing to not like it because it had something to do with christianity.. im like uhhh this was when i was one.. lol.. i just dont see why we can just love and be good to each other and get along..

yep but after all of this i probably shouldnt be friends with them if i am always going to wonder if they will still snap back into "save me mode" if they do find me deem able to talk to that is..

yeah i have found that to be true too.. the whole "it is hard to be friends with someone in this religion unless you are of that religion" and its really sad

i know.. but some people tend to think that if you are associating with some other faith that the friendship will never be good anyways so why care??

i would rather not know peoples religion because then i know i wont have any way of accidentally assuming or judging them.. as long as i know that they are ok with this or what they are totally against to where i can steer clear of those subjects im happy

yeah i wouldnt want to associate with them anymore after this.. it seems like your always either with them or against them with some religions..

my number 1 pet peeve is ignorance!! and it amazes me how people get stuck in it in the name of their religions god.. i would think god would want us all to be knowledge in everything and choosy in some things

yeah.. we both are cool like that lol

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yeah same here.. i had moved away first but stayed in contact so it wasnt even that i left and changed my mind while i was with them but it didnt matter.. as soon as they heard i didnt anymore i was a horrible person..

Nice people! I guess they weren't friends after all!!

it isnt healthy.. which is why i dont think any blame should be put on you because you didnt want to be harassed.. i figured my friends would eventually realized im the same person but they just never got out of the mentality that i was going to hell..

thats why i think a lot of people need to keep their beliefs personal just because it seems that religion just can cause all kinds of problems for no good reason.. and i know its affected my family a lot.. since i changed they have stayed the same and so i feel out casted from them also.. its really sad.. people forgot that people of other beliefs can be good people too.. which is sad

yep both of those subjects cause way too many wars!!

yep which is really sad that people that do get ditched dont realize their friendships arent real for years until something comes and breaks them apart

i would have to add ignorance also with arrogance.. not that their ideas or faith are ignorant but that some people just follow things so blindly and never think for themselves that maybe they were taught too extreme or maybe the person teaching them is the arrogant one that is going to mess them up etc.. i think my friends just grew up and followed, obeyed and never thought for themselves that maybe there were other paths.. so i blame their families (their parents were all much worse than them it was how they were raised) on their ignorance.. but i guess you can only blame them so long.. they are in their mid to late 20s and should have learned by now to listen and learn on their own..

true a lot of it is group mentality.. 1 person leaves and everyone has an opinion about it and they all seem to decide together that you arent worthy.. at least sometimes thats the case

i totally believe it breeds hate too.. which makes no sense.. especially when a lot of religions are trying to not be racist but yet other religions are unacceptable