Dealing with beliver friends on Facebook

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No one has the right to tell you to censor your own facebook. If they have a problem with you, they can choose to deal with it by hiding your posts.

I'm not sure if he was trying to tell me to knock it off or saying he was going to ignore me. I agree though, I feel everybody has the right to be themselves on FB if they aren't calling people names and bullying. The only time I have said anything about people's posts on FB was when somebody was degrading other people who post political and religious material. I was actually sticking up for people who post pro-religious items.

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Do you have some examples of your posts on Facebook?

Perhaps you are expressing your beliefs (or lack of beliefs) in a matter than may be more offensive to some than it needs to be.

I have friends from both sides of the political spectrum (the closest example I experience to your situation) that post quite rude comments about people with different views than their own (I generally ignore them, which might be something you can tell your friends who are upset about what you post...maybe even, "if you don't like what you I post, you can de-friend me"....saw something like that in my News Feed after work one day) when they could easily post the same idea while still showing a degree of respect to their friends.

I re-post stuff from United Atheist Front, Global Secular Humanist Movement, Progressive Secular Humanist, Sexy Atheists, Godless Living and Hitch quotes I come across. On my last post before he emailed me I said something to the effect that there is no shame in not believing and that you are not alone if you don't believe.

I do have things to add when I post something like a news piece where a kid died because his Christian parents refused any treatment besides prayer. I posted about that snake handling preacher that died from a rattle snake bite and commented about nominating him for the Darwin Award.

I am not a bully type of person at all, from what he wrote about me I think that comes across quite well in my other posts.

I think part of the problem may be that for some people their faith is their identity perhaps. When someone points out the flaws in faith they feel personally attacked.

I don't believe I'm crossing a line that mocks them personally. Maybe they feel it is a personal attack when I post something that implies they are stupid for believing.

I do remember recently having fun at religion's expense and posting something like "Brother XXXXX is going to read from the book of Libations tonight for Y'all. Lib 33:20 Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy" Is that mocking them? I was sort of mocking the bible.