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Comment by Sonny Mobley on September 8, 2010 at 3:01pm

I feel you! I recently ceased directly associating with my oldest friend. Two decades of friendship essentially gone. So be it.

Comment by Michelle on September 8, 2010 at 1:38pm

I've been pretty lucky. I grew up in a fundamentalist A/G church and have friends from their with whom I'm still in touch. One guy lives in Alabama now and when I got his invite and saw the religious stuff there was a pause. I wrote him a private message stating that things have changed for me and that I'm an Atheist etc. etc. If he felt comfortable with that then yes, we could be friends if not, then it did not seem like something that would work. He thought I was pretty funny and does not find me offensive. I've always been an arguer and continue to be so he was able to recognize that I'm really not so different (and neither is he for that matter). So... there may also be hope that not all religious people will behave this way. My mother has been blocked for ages now because she makes me crazy with her crazy. I pretty much say what I want (within reason of still being able to find a job so no "work sucks" stuff) and let the pieces fall where they may. As for the fucktards, I've stopped engaging them a long time ago, it has not proven worth my time or stress dealing with those who choose to be blind. (sure they feel the same about me so it works.) Good luck.

Comment by Linda on September 8, 2010 at 12:46pm

I totally know what you are talking about. A few weeks ago I came to Nexus to blow-up about a situation where an friend from long ago (15 years) who I no longer talk to looked me up on FB. She's now a fundamentalist Baptist and the things she told me about her life made my hair stand up on end. I tried to have a discussion with her through e-mail but it was useless. I was upset because she had been my best friend from age 16 through 35 and then she got religion and that was the end of our relationship because she told me that my dabbling into "new age" was "of the devil". I don't have interest in new age anymore but the point is she had the gall to say something like that to me after all we had been through.

It was like opening a old wound all over again once I gave in and accepted her friend invite and tried to talk to her again after all this time. I was so upset and the people at Nexus were fantastic and helped me very much. I felt 100% better after venting here and receiving so much support.

She's still on my FB but I hide her feed and we are not communicating.

Comment by Kelly M on September 8, 2010 at 11:20am

Here's what I found when I logged in today......beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here...lol

Chip Bryant The guy on the History Channel just said that we have no idea where we came from or where we're going, that man has no more idea today than the ancients did??
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Jane Vaughan I love how the school systems want to teach evolution but REFUSE in most instances to allow "intelligent design" which is the "fancy word" for creation! Oh yeah, I forgot! That would mean there is a God in HEAVEN that created it all!
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Patrick Mcguire Darwin himself said it was just a theory and for it to be proven we would have to find millions of "missing links" for all the different species, also 3 of the world leading mathmaticians figured out the odds for all of evolution and found that the world according to science is not old enough to support it, 2 of the 3 admitted that it was more likely by design and the third refused to say.
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* Write a comment... ME**** you people are a bunch of *ucktards!!

Comment by George on September 8, 2010 at 1:21am

You can hide Facebook friends that annoy you so they're not visible in your feed. Problem solved.

Then you could get more Facebook friends who are more like-minded (atheist, political interests, cultural interests, whatever). Then you can view their feeds instead.

Perhaps you could come up with clever (and polite) ways of engaging your religious friends in discussion about their beliefs.

Comment by Grace Fitzpatrick on September 8, 2010 at 1:20am

I'm so glad I deleted my facebook account 3 or 4 months ago. I quit over privacy concerns. I ended up only talking about shampooing my carpet, because I really didn't want my family to know everything about me. Now, I wonder if it was even worth it. If she's annoying you with her chatter which is probably only geared to making her look a lot more religious than she is, hide her feed. You have better things to do than read about her dull life.

Comment by Kelly M on September 7, 2010 at 11:06pm

So it's ok for them to do it as long as it's about god, but since you are atheist, you automatically don't have the same right??? Ok...so this is the very thing that has us atheist pissed off. Just tired of the one sided, delusional bewel she-ut! (southern accent way to say it...lol)

Comment by §kürrý on September 7, 2010 at 12:47pm

I will occasionally post atheistically toned articles on my Fbook page when someone posts something religious that gets under my skin. I can not post as much as I would like to though because I don't want to offend anyone.

However, on my gaming profile I get a lot of posts about god and I openly post anything I feel is promoting atheism in a positive light. I was actually called out on it by one of my gamers that I played with all the time. (I actually have a thread on here with my response that I got some help from the ANers with). He said it wasn't my place to talk about my atheism and I basically said it was as much mine as it was anyone else to say anything about god.

Comment by Rob van Senten on September 6, 2010 at 7:19am

Just ignore/block/hide/delete her from your list? Or is that a stupid remark (I'm not a facebook user).

Comment by Stephen Moore on September 6, 2010 at 3:53am

Anyone else have christian friend horror stories???

Thankfully, no.

Then we have to pray for her jewelry party on Friday night

So, she wants God to interfere with people's free will and compel them (or at the very least, make them more amenable) to buy jewellery from her? I guess she must be a socialist, since she doesn't like free markets.

Oh, well. Take comfort that when you pray to God about your petty concerns it's no longer narcissism. That's the magic of prayer!

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