(January 5, 2009 at 1:57 am)CaLo Wrote: I know how you feel in many ways. I go to a Catholic highschool, and i have relationships with many religious people. My close friends, however, are all atheist/agnostic. But to the point about religious friends: I can't think of any of my good friends that are religious, but i do interact with people that are religious quite often. I think of them like any other person, most of them are nice and caring, etc. but when we start talking about religion/god/beliefs i am a little put off by what they have to say and how absurd it sounds to me and it makes me not want to pursue any further relationship with them (just keep it a student to student relationship, rather than being official 'friends'). most of them i will never talk to in my life again anyway so it doesn't really bother me. Plus i realize they are still young and can change their beliefs easily. (lol i felt like an old guy saying that)
Indeed ... I'm an ex-Rat Catcher (Catholic) and I don't see how I could be close friends with someone who strongly believed that stuff because, when you give it some real thought, they (as I suppose most Christians) are implicitly condemning you/me (the unbelievers) to an eternity in a fiery hell. Oh yeah I know they will argue all the usual crap about it being our choice 'n all but that's bullshit and they're just too locked up in their own stupid belief systems to understand that it is THEM who are condemning and not us choosing. I suppose if I avoided religion as a topic of conversation I could be friends with religious people but religion (inasmuch as I regard it as anything from a complete waste of time & effort to near absolute evil) is important to me, I don't want to avoid talking about it and it would rapidly become clear that I had no respect for that person's POV on that issue ... hardly the basis for friendship IMO.
Kyu
