Questions: atheist/theist friends

[Angrboda]

Hard to know how to answer with such a vague example. I think it's as important to love someone for their faults as much as their virtues, but lines do occasionally need to be drawn. I broke up with my best friend over religion this past winter. We were watching television, and to illustrate my point, I drew some examples from the bible, just as a common cultural reference. She immediately jumped to the conclusion that I was making fun of her religion, Christianity, and started to attack me, verbally. I tried to explain that she was misunderstanding me, but she cut off every attempt and accused me of continuing to make fun of her religion, by denying that I was. She never really cared enough to understand my religious beliefs, so if she remembered at all, it was, "oh, you worship that guy with all the arms." That night, all she could remember was that I hung out with atheists a lot, and therefore I was a god hating atheist. So she basically trashed me, my feelings, and when I protested about her misconstruing my religious beliefs, she trashed my god, punctuating it with the excuse that her god commanded her to have no other god before him. I haven't spoken to her since. I'm a bit leery of letting another Christian into my life.