RE: Friend deleted me after 2 years because i'm atheist
October 18, 2015 at 12:51 am
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2015 at 1:00 am by Heat.)
I also wanted to mention that he was very discriminatory towards homosexuals, which stemmed from his religion(i'm guessing). Not to pride myself, but to get an idea of the type of person I am, I never challenged this belief, I easily could have, but I knew that it wouldn't change, and even though I strongly disagreed with him, I respected him and his beliefs. If I challenged him on that issue it would end up going back to where it started in the first place, his religion, in a way if I challenged that issue I was challenging a personal belief of his, not just on a random subject but one he actually cared about. I guess that added to my anger as well when he brang up my atheism and started mocking it when the argument taking place had nothing to do with it whatsoever. I don't want to paint me out as "me being 100% right and him 100% wrong on everything" like i'm perfect and he's the devil incarnate, which you may have got from this thread.
However, the fact that I respected his personal beliefs that much, to not even so much as challenge his completely unethical, depressingly less-than-a-person view of homosexual people. That meant something to me. There was a lot of build up to me getting this angry but that was the final straw. For me to respect his views that much, and for him to have to little respect for mine in return, to bring it up in an unrelated situation and not only use it as an insult, but to use it as an insult not even a day after I told him what it meant to me and how it shouldn't affect our relationship. That's why I was angry enough to make this thread.
For the people who think i'm being "overly dramatic";
You have to realize that I don't have many friends. I knew this person and talked to them every day for two years. It's not like i'm just dramatizing a small event in my life. It wasn't just some random friend, or an episode of daily high school drama on Degrassi. I don't make a big deal out of things. For the most part, I am very anti-social and completely the opposite, I would rather keep to myself and not bother anyone than create commotion and have the possibility that someone might help me improve my situation a little bit. I don't like bothering people with my issues, because i'm always in the mind set of "it could be worse", the morning after writing this when I woke up I was already regretting posting it. Don't think i'm being dramatic for no reason.
However, the fact that I respected his personal beliefs that much, to not even so much as challenge his completely unethical, depressingly less-than-a-person view of homosexual people. That meant something to me. There was a lot of build up to me getting this angry but that was the final straw. For me to respect his views that much, and for him to have to little respect for mine in return, to bring it up in an unrelated situation and not only use it as an insult, but to use it as an insult not even a day after I told him what it meant to me and how it shouldn't affect our relationship. That's why I was angry enough to make this thread.
For the people who think i'm being "overly dramatic";
You have to realize that I don't have many friends. I knew this person and talked to them every day for two years. It's not like i'm just dramatizing a small event in my life. It wasn't just some random friend, or an episode of daily high school drama on Degrassi. I don't make a big deal out of things. For the most part, I am very anti-social and completely the opposite, I would rather keep to myself and not bother anyone than create commotion and have the possibility that someone might help me improve my situation a little bit. I don't like bothering people with my issues, because i'm always in the mind set of "it could be worse", the morning after writing this when I woke up I was already regretting posting it. Don't think i'm being dramatic for no reason.
