Well, I think you have to make an important decision. Is a friendship with someone that would abandon you due to a difference in religious beliefs worth maintaining? And who knows, perhaps the ones you assume would shun you might actually accept you.
Personally, I am of the opinion that a friendship that could not survive a difference in religious beliefs isn't really a friendship in the first place.
As for deconverting, I never had to, so I can't give any advice there except to read up about others that have gone through the same thing. Dan Barker's "Godless" would be a good start.
Personally, I am of the opinion that a friendship that could not survive a difference in religious beliefs isn't really a friendship in the first place.
As for deconverting, I never had to, so I can't give any advice there except to read up about others that have gone through the same thing. Dan Barker's "Godless" would be a good start.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
