I would just caution giving in to thoughts like "so-called" friends, just because people happen to be religious.
People aren't by fiat stupid, malevolent, or incapable of giving sound advice or the "right kind" of support just because they are religious. My mother is about as religious as you can get, and she still gives me good advice and support all the time.
The best you can do and not be a hypocrite is to challenge her assertions with questions that make her think and come to her own conclusions. If her own conclusion is that there is a benevolent being out there looking out for her, and this comforts her, who are you to say she shouldn't, so long as it only affects you insofar as the idea makes you uncomfortable?
People aren't by fiat stupid, malevolent, or incapable of giving sound advice or the "right kind" of support just because they are religious. My mother is about as religious as you can get, and she still gives me good advice and support all the time.
The best you can do and not be a hypocrite is to challenge her assertions with questions that make her think and come to her own conclusions. If her own conclusion is that there is a benevolent being out there looking out for her, and this comforts her, who are you to say she shouldn't, so long as it only affects you insofar as the idea makes you uncomfortable?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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