Under Construction - MHWA Retreat

I'm not Christian and I'm not super religious person. I do respect everyone's faith because I was taught to do so when I was very young. I like visiting churches all over the world if I stumble across an interesting or ancient one and I don't have a problem exploring it. But, I'm not religious. I believe in some higher power, like, something that created this existence but I don't do regular praying to God and all religious stuff that comes with it.

I had a situation on wdc actually which I would describe as bible thumping. Basically, what happened is that I randomly answered a newbies question on the newsfeed (since then I'm not so crazy about 'meeting newbies' on the site) and this person replied in an email. I still don't know how we came to talk about religion though but things happened very quickly. And before I knew it, this newbie was convincing me I'll burn in hell because I don't believe in Jesus . I kept saying I'm not interested in any sort of religious talk here on the site because it's just not my thing and I don't care about religion, or heaven, hell, whatever and he kept pushing it toward me saying how everyone who doesn't believe in Jesus will burn in hell. Alright. I stopped trying to tell him how I don't give a single fuck about his words and I swear if he replied to that last email, I'd have him reported for harassment. So, it was basically telling person I'm not interested and he kept pushing it toward still without a single atom of respect for me and my own beliefs, faith. I was really pissed.

Religion and religious talks are not my to go talk when interacting with friends and random people because it often finish with some sort of disagreement and even discomfort. I guess it's okay to talk about it if both parties are aware of each other to that level for which I believe you were and I don't think you could wrong her in that manner.

This is from my personal experience. I don't know, like Charlie mentioned, if she's a dear friend I'd try to avoid saying something that upsets her. This isn't just about religion I guess, in every relationship there's some disagreement going on and I think if a person cares enough about other person then there should be an apology and just avoid sensitive talk for the sake of friendship/relationship. That's how I deal with my friends anyway . Those I care for dearly of course. And it helps.

~Minja