RE: Friend turned to religion in bad way, please help.
June 29, 2013 at 2:10 am
(This post was last modified: June 29, 2013 at 2:21 am by freeman552.)
(June 29, 2013 at 1:58 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: What religion, if i may ask?
I think maybe he's really bought into it and is worried about your "eternal soul"? He's likely doing this out of concern for you if you're very close friends. Maybe ask him if he thinks what he's doing is convincing you. That if he thinks his acting this way would move you closer to his religion, or cause you to be suspicious of it? Try to help him see that his actions are not making you like his religion any better, and that you're a little worried about him.
Another approach, the one I take when someone tries to convert me, is to tell them why i don't believe. Which is that there is no evidence. And if they came up with evidence I would consider it. They usually can't come up with evidence and would drop it.
The dominant religion in this country (my country of origin) is orthodox christianity, so I would assume that is it.
I don't know, I tried explaining to him that I simply want to live my life otherwise. Some of his responses were: "Your view on the world is bulls**t", "You're stupid, if you want to live in darkness, go for it", and, simply, "you're a d***"...
But you bring up interesting points, I will see what I can do with that
(June 29, 2013 at 2:08 am)Minimalist Wrote: Become rude and aggressive, too.
If he prefers his new invisible friend to you there isn't much you can do about it anyway.
You don't say how old he is but sudden personality changes in young adults can be indications of severe mental illness. If he is a young adult the problem is beyond your capacity to influence.
Becoming rude and aggressive myself is the perfect way to destroy the friendship forever, which I do not want to do because as I said it was almost flawless up to now.
He's 22, I know that he has been taking testosterone-stimulating medication (why he thought it was a good idea, I do not know, it wasnt recommended by a doctor or anything), and I noticed some personality changes which I'm sure are due to that, but why he chose religion all of a sudden is completely beyond my understanding.
