To those who were once believers and are now atheists, some advice?

[Angrboda]

I don't know whether I'm on the wrong side of the fence here or not. My last best friend that I had, I split up with her over religion. We had been watching TV, and I tried to illustrate a point using stories of women in the bible. She knew I spent a lot of time with atheists, so she jumped to the conclusion that I was making fun of her religion, Christianity. The more I plead innocence, the more she accused me of making atheist arguments. When I pointed out that I was a Hindu who loved her god very much, she said she couldn't acknowledge that because her god told her to have no other god before him. I felt so betrayed and hurt. I broke off the relationship the next day.

In some sense, it would have been nice to have been able to continue on as we had before that night, but that possibility was over and done. I realized I'd never feel safe with her again because of the vicious and relentless way she attacked me, so there was no "continuing on as we had before" — she had ended what we had as surely as if she had been the one who broke up with me. While it's somewhat true that we broke apart because of religion, the deeper truth is that I broke up with her because I could no longer trust her. Maybe our trust might have recovered, but given how she ignored my pleas of innocence that night, I was afraid she could turn on me at any moment, regardless of what I had to say in my own defense.