So my (formerly agnostic, now atheist) friend (Christian) is very Christian and obsesses over it. Her only friends besides me are Christian and all they talk about is the Bible, Jesus, and God. She also tries to “convert” people. She tried to convert me by asking what my relationship with God as like, if I read the Bible, etc. and tried to get me to apologize to God for being agnostic and not Christian “for Christianity is the only true religion and He will come soon”.

She constantly talks about it like I said and constantly tries to get me to convert every time we talk.

  • AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    10 days ago

    You tell her “I love you and enjoy spending time with you, but it’s starting to make me uncomfortable that you keep pressing the religion and conversion conversation.”

    Then, if she keeps it up, you cut her loose because she doesn’t respect your boundaries.

  • verolena@piefed.socialEnglish
    91·
    10 days ago

    i think its wrong to force your religion onto others. that being said, i do believe in god, but not the church’s rules and homophobia. i try not to force my beliefs

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    6·
    10 days ago

    Ask her if she’s ever been friends with someone who became interested in her, that she wasn’t interested in but who kept pestering her to go out with him/her. Spend some time commiserating about the experience, how awkward it made every interaction, how she constantly had to be on guard, how she was never sure when he might try again, and how she had to continually check for potential double-meanings or pitfalls. The guy has been told No multiple times but you’re just not interested, yet he send to think if he just keeps badgering at you, you’ll give in and date him.

    Then tell her that that’s what her constantly bringing up religion is like for you. And that “No means No” applies to more than just sex.

  • whaleross@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    10 days ago

    Ask her which christian god she identifies with and ask her if she’d apologize to the other christian gods for picking the wrong one. Then she can move on to the other abrahamic religions with related but different gods that are apparently worth killing each other over. Then it is time to do a polite check in with the other non-abrahamic world religion gods and pay her respects because I mean what if. And after that it is worth mentioning that the abandoned religions that were the precursors to all variants of christianity might actually be the right one, unless she is prepared to admit that the current one she believes in might also be wrong because it is actually a future evolution that finally got it right…

    Of course this is just a smug elaboration to point out the absurdity of the situation.

    Personally I’d probably just quietly drop them from my social circle.

  • BillDaCatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 days ago

    Push back in the same way.

    Answer her questions about your lack of belief with your own questions. Ask her why she believes?

    What makes her feel like her religion is correct?
    What about Christianity is more right than other religions?
    Does she think that she would still be Christian if she was born in India or China instead of here? If so, why?
    Has she ever read, or considered reading, about Islam or Buddhism or any other religion that isn’t based on Christianity?

    I doubt you will hear from her much after that. If you do, she will likely ease up on the religious stuff.

  • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    Fucking Evangelicals are a menace to society. You may want to read about how to interact with and even deradicalize cult members.