religious friends

[Eilonnwy]

I have a ton of friends because I travel and make friends through conventions I go to. My friends range from strong atheist to Jesus lovers. While I'm often disappointed to find someone who I consider intelligent to believe in god, I don't hold it against them and it doesn't change my opinion or feelings for them.

Actually just recently one of my friends Scott found out I'm an atheist because I've been more verbal about it lately. He now teases me about it. But it doesn't bother me, because I don't think it changes his opinion of me. He likes to tease people about things and this is just a new thing that gets attention. He has told me before that he likes me because I'm very good at defending my opinions, like when I told him about my reasons for supporting Obama. He likes to argue with me and grill me on my opinions because I have well thought out ones. I haven't gotten into a religious debate with him yet, but I have a feeling it will happen at some point, and when it does I'll be ready.

In another case I have a friend who is so into her religion that she once wrote an LJ post about how she just thought that Jesus must have pooped and how mind boggling that was. XD

Then I have my atheist friends who I can joke and discuss religion with, so it's all good.