When a friend finds God ...

Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:

I don't have a problem with people finding god. I have a problem with people trying to make me look for him too.

Precisely my thoughts.

MotorCityMike wrote:

So many Lost in this thread...bumming me out.

Either that was a joke or you're exactly what I'm talking about.

C'mon, which is it?

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

I told her that she better not get brainwashed this year when she goes to camp and if she does, I won't take her back-to-school clothes shopping.

lmao!!

My friend, who I mentioned in an earlier post is married to a pentecostal preacher that she met at church camp was always SOOOO different after coming back from camp. It was honestly hard to be around her at first...and then after a few weeks, she'd fall back into her normal, slightly less judgmental and sheltered version of herself, lol.

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

Just live and let live. If your friend is happy then you should be happy for him. Different strokes for different folks. Atheism can be its own form of brainwashing.

amen

Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:

Similarly annoying is when you stop going to church, but the rest of your family is still religious as hell (haha... me so ironic), and 8 years later, your mom still says "I prayed for you in church today. Because we know someday, you'll come back to the church. You will."

My life exactly! We must have the same mother!

I'm all for live and let live. Just don't send me one of those thick birthday cards that has 15 pages from the bible in it and no money!:D

Well red, I don't know about punching them in the throat, but I often have the desire to scream. However I don't think I'd say it's just when a friend finds God because I've had friends find God and they've been perfectly reasonable about it, in other words they've discovered something that's very important to them and it's only enhanced their true nature not turned them into an evangelical.

So I'll qualify and say I struggle mightily when friends have an epiphany of any kind and feel the need to rant on endlessly at me about their new found "thing". A few experiences come to mind.

A friend became seriously ill, they latched on to a microbiotic diet to try to heal themselves. That's great and I understand you'd freak out and be fearful in those circumstances, desperately trying anything, but I don't need the lectures. Or for it to be a constant source of conversation between us simply because they couldn't discuss their illness. I sure as hell don't need to be nagged at that I need to join them otherwise I'll suffer dire consequences.

The other example that springs to mind is when friends have been approached by direct marketing schemes and they're suckered in.
Amway, Herbalife, that kind of thing. Actually now that you mention it, when I've lost friends to the dark side like that I've had an overwhelming urge to punch them in the throat.

iluvcats wrote:

Am I the only pearl jam fan who believes in God?

Nope, I do. God and Jesus. And I'm Jewish. (I'm sure that opens myself up to jokes)
I don't think there's anything wrong with finding God.

It's more than likely that he didn't actually find god, but instead found the need to find him. That's generally the case with most people who "find" god. They just become so desperate for everything to make sense with a simple answer that they just give up on truth and instead embrace fantasy.

One might say live and let live, but if you truly are his friend and sincerely care for his well-being, you have an obligation to do everything in your power to ensure that he reliquinshes his desire for spirituality before it's too late -before he loses any hope of understanding life on life's terms rather than through the twisted lens of religion's terms.

found God? i bet he was behind the sofa.