what should I do about my religious friend? (lemmings.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by blackwitch@lemmings.world to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

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So my (formerly agnostic, now atheist) friend (Christian) is very Christian and obsesses over it. Her only friends besides me are Christian and all they talk about is the Bible, Jesus, and God. She also tries to "convert" people. She tried to convert me by asking what my relationship with God as like, if I read the Bible, etc. and tried to get me to apologize to God for being agnostic and not Christian "for Christianity is the only true religion and He will come soon".

She constantly talks about it like I said and constantly tries to get me to convert every time we talk.

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[-] Small_Quasar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Very sound advice. To be honest, I've just entered my 40s and I've only just figured it out.

Having social phobia fucked me up in a few secondary ways and this is one of them - any conversation/relationship pretty much made me uncomfortable and it took me a long time to be able to separate normal conversations/relationships from the ones with people keen to take advantage of a meek, quiet person.

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