With my religious friends, we don’t discuss religion at all. Not Christianity, at least. We went to a Lutheran university so I was around a lot of Christians but they were very low-key and welcoming. We learned about religions around the world and were required to take at least 2 religion classes to graduate. I took one on Judaism in America and the other on Death and the Afterlife in various religions. We talked about these things but not about our beliefs. With the one’s I know believe, I choose not to bring it up. Sometimes someone says they’ll pray for me and it makes me feel a little uncomfortable but I know it is coming from a good place. My one religion scholar friend who is also Catholic shoots me down when I try to talk about my (non)beliefs. He always has a response. I think it isn’t socially acceptable to talk poorly about someone’s religious beliefs but your thoughts are not taken seriously

Try it. Religion is the believe there is a superhuman controlling power, like a God or Gods, a divine law or something else that exceeds human understanding and perception that guides us.

The only thing I can come up that is something like this is our current state, reality and the universe. So in my eyes, every religion is non-religious in the sense that it is not a entity they worship, it is the universe itself. And this makes all their ruling and dogma`s non religious but just variations of science and the natural law.

Μαχητικός γίνομαι μόνο σε παραεπιστημονικές ανοησίες: ομοιοπαθητικές, εμβόλια, κλπ..

I used to believe in God, Jesus Christ, etc. until I started to read about it (Bible) and became atheist (as christian) an agnostic, in the question “is there a God?”. My answer is “I don’t know” and I will happily accept anything, as long as it comes with reason, logic, evidence.

But all in all, there isn’t really any significant difference, enough to cause some hinderance in my relationships with them, or even enough to come up much in discussions for that matter. Most just don’t care much about religion and haven’t given it much thought.

A notable exception is my ex who I was very close to and is very religious, even though I’m strongly against theism. There had been numerous clashes on the topic and even a break up because of that. At the end we made up and decided to stop trying to change each other there and we were able to move on from that topic. Which I think is a very good example of mutual maturity and reconciliation, in an area where such achievements are rare and far between. If the other person is good and kind and caring and has a ton of advantages, then a few disadvantages like such philosophical differences won’t prevail. In the end that doesn’t make me love her any less and it wouldn’t stop me from forming meaningful relationships with people in the future, if those people are worth it overall.