(February 22, 2014 at 3:02 pm)Mr. Moncrieff Wrote: It certainly bears cultural and familial ties in my context, meaning that it would disappoint the vast core of my family and friends to see that I had left the faith. My father would be indifferent as he is a particularly intellectual man and, although he still subscribes to the faith, he has long been agnostic in his views.
My mother is too focused upon the supernatural and relies upon the faith as her crutch for me to ever be able to convince her. As for aunties and uncles, I think that would be the crux of the matter seeing as our grandmother was a Catholic matriarch - although still a beautiful warm and deeply affectionate woman. Leaving the faith would be seen as a betrayal of her...I would suppose.
If they are good friends they shouldn't care what your beliefs are surely? Having said that I think people don't like it because it threatens their own beliefs. My thoughts on this are: If you are that unconvinced by the truth of your beliefs that a friend not holding that same belief threatens you, your beliefs are based on very little.
I hate that religion does this to groups of people.
