My best friend has been converted by his Christian gf

[GuppyPal]

I shouldn't really care, but I live in a conservative area of the States and almost everyone I know is a bible beating Republican. The few atheists I do know aren't really the type of the people I care to hang out with (they're nice people and all, and I'm friends with them, but they're not "good" friends). My best friend though was the one person I really shared a common understanding with, not just about religion, but about a lot of things. Now his girlfriend has somehow converted him back to Christianity, and it's screwing with the way I see the guy. It's not that he's Christian, it's that he could be atheist and then GO BACK to believing in bullshit. I hate to say it, but I just feel like I've lost a lot of respect for his mind. Of course we'll be great friends regardless, I'm just kind of upset because I feel like the only sane person in my immediate world right now.

I don't really even know what kind of response I'm looking for; just needed to tell someone.

 

[scalyblue]

thou shalt be faithful to the provider of thine nookie.

 

[xman]

*hears the sound of a whip cracking*

Keep at him and he'll come back around, probably about the time the "honeymoon" is over.

 

[AndyfromMonday]

He's not converted. He's simply trying to "seem" Christian so that his GF might like him.

 

[Shaedys]

You think in his heart he now really believes in Christianity because his girlfriend is Christian?
I think he'll turn back around once its over.

 

[MRaverz]

Pussywhippeddddd.

He should have been the one converting her to be honest.

 

[GuppyPal]

He's not converted. He's simply trying to "seem" Christian so that his GF might like him.

Yeah, I'm sure that's the case since he told me he was Christian at a time when it was just him and me and his gf was out of town. :roll:

He's been with the girl for over 3 years and wants to marry her eventually. I remember talking to him early in the relationship and he said the one thing he didn't like about her was her religiousness and joked about how amazed he was people actually believed in such nonsense. He's a music performance major and doesn't really care about much else, and almost all of his friends are music majors. Nothing against music majors, but learning to play a saxaphone doesn't really answer many of life's questions or help one better understand the world. I'm majoring in Biology and Chemistry and minoring in Anthropology and Religious Studies and have come to view religion as so obviously absurd it's hard to understand how anyone believes it. I know that sounds arrogant... I just feel like we've kind of diverged in the way we think over the past several years.

 

[Orkaney]

Have you asked him directly why he's lost his reasoning skills?

 

[Warhawk57]

I know exactly how you feel in a way... All my freinds are Christian and consevative. I have never meet another perosn in my life that I could talk to that was an avid non believer. It's really hard trying to balance my beliefs and my freinds beliefs but as long as the two of you come to an understanding that no matter what argument about god or politics you get into you both have to drop it once it's over... That's the only way your relationship and function. Don't challenge him unless he tries to convert you or something... If anything I have more respect for my freinds that believe, because of their innocence...


I have more experience on this subject then any person here I dare say.... 15 years of private school will make you apprecate collage in a totally new way lol

as for the girlfreind it sounds like she is the new god of his life now...