A lot of good advices herE. I can understand what your atheist friend must feel like being an outcast in his own circle of friends. I will definitely recommend staying out of it and delete both of them from your facebook account. Your atheist friend will Grow out of his phase soon and begin to respect those that don't share his beliefs. I was there once and I certainly fought and argued a lot with people but now I have learned to look past their faith and accept them as they are. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of people that will agree with your atheist friend and he has to learn to accept that. Stay out of it and he will surely return with an apology. I don't apologiZe for not having reverting and I do not regret it for a sec. Things are more logical when you take religion out of the picture. That's just me and h probably feels that way too. Give it some time
See its not about atheism. Its ok if he does not believe in religions, but blaming islam as a package for everything-wrong, is not correct.
^ sounds familiar. I did the same thing. Trust me he will grow out of it. Sooner or later he will realize that he needs to keep his beliefs to himself or he will lose his family and friends. It's easier keeping quiet than trying to convince others. I would say give him 6 months. He has to learn to respect others opinion if he wants to keep his friends.
I have 2 friends. We are friends from 11th grade. In fact one of them is my friend from 1st grade. so its been 20 years of friendship minimum.
One is in USA and one in Pakistan. I am not sure what happened in many ways, they grew apart. One became more religious and anti-west (guess which one :D), while the other turned so liberal, in fact atheist that to him Islam and/or Muslims are the reason behind all worlds problem.
They were always arguing on facebook and now one sent me a note that he kicked the other one out of his friends list.
I am in a bad situation. I dont want their friendship to be gone, but I understand the pov of the one who is angry.
what to do?
Ur religious friend kicked athiest out, I say follow him.
but if we all start doing that, then are not we proving the atheist right, that religious people are too narrow minded?
i am not religious, but yes Religious people are narrow minded. You cant marry a mushrik, eat with them, let them enter city of MAKAH, let them cook our food. Thats going of topic.
Coming back to problem. Why dont you arrange a movie nite with both, WATCH "DIL CHAHTA HAI" and tell em you are in Saif Ali Khans Shoes.
Ohh damn, relgious friend wont even watch movie with u :(
No, they wont watch a desi flick .. heck I wont watch a desi flick ..
What you mentioned above is not narrow mindedness, its following the rules of religion. Narrow-mindedness is not listening to other person's POV. That is what I meant.
No, they wont watch a desi flick .. heck I wont watch a desi flick ..
What you mentioned above is not narrow mindedness, its following the rules of religion. Narrow-mindedness is not listening to other person's POV. That is what I meant.
Okay on very serious note.
Talk to your Religious friend. Tell him, the same thing you told me, coz i was in favor of the relgious guy kicking atheist out of friends list but you changed my mind. I dont think ur religious friend did the rite thing any more.
off topic, why does it take atleast 3 posts to get me serious :( ?
Why do atheists even like discussing religion? I see this even on GS. People who want nothing whatsoever to do with religion are the most active participants in all religious debates. That’s like me saying I hate maths but then participating in all things mathematics - doesn’t make sense. Unless I’m on a mission to make everyone hate maths and make them realise they’re super retarded for learning maths
i'll suggest you to keep out of their fights if you wanna be friends with both of them. if they try to involve you then you should just tell them straight away that they should solve their own problems and u will friends with both of them.
i'll suggest you to keep out of their fights if you wanna be friends with both of them. if they try to involve you then you should just tell them straight away that they should solve their own problems and u will friends with both of them.
no they are trying to involve me. So I should stay away, you say! Maybe you are right. Its one less headache for me
atleast on the Internet.