religious and atheists, can you be friends with someone who doesn't share your beliefs, but isn't trying to make you think the same way as them either?

I can be friends with people with different beliefs but we are not debating but we are also not pretending like it doesn't exist. I will talk about celebrating Ramadan and Eid, they will talk about Christmas and Easter. Any good traits I have come from being a Muslim so I'm not going to tip toe around it.

I agree with Zainab. There's nothing to debate. I'm happy to talk with my friends about my beliefs but only if asked or if the context applies to a conversation. I do expect that my friends respect my beliefs and don't try challenge me on it.

I don't debate religion or beliefs. I can't befriend people who can't respect their beliefs arent everyone else's, and that goes for atheists or friends of faith. How close we are depends on how aligned are views are though. Your faith is what makes you the person you are and that can't be ignored

Theres no debate. Theres explaining why someone thinks that way. Religion is not a moral compass and people don’t need religion to have good morals or values. People have different experiences and a million things that make them unique and different. Religion doesn’t need to come up in a conversation at all, specially of it cannot be a respectful conversation

Yes we can be friends. I have friends from all walks of life & our different religious beliefs have never been a problem. I do think it’s silly if some1 wouldn’t be friends with me cuz I’m a Muslim. Bt I would respect their choice.

I’m Catholic and married to an atheist. Most of my friends are also atheist. We’ve discussed religion and whether to raise our children in the faith. He doesn’t share my belief system but he’s supportive. Would I marry or be friends with someone who was actively degrading my faith, absolutely not.

I think it depends. I’m a lapsed Catholic. I’ve been friends with a Muslim mum and someone that has found Christianity. It’s not something that I’ve ever had a debate about. I appreciate that they may celebrate things like Easter and Xmas slightly differently but the same could also ve said for my friend from Sweden or my Polish sil. What may be problematic is if they had completely different views to books, movies, music, dress sense because of their religion or different views of lgbt rights and other issues.

I can definitely be friends with different beliefs. As long as we can have *respectful* conversations about it and thats not all we discuss.

Exactly what said.

Totally depends. The majority of people in my life would call themselves Christians. And I’m still friends with them. Some of them I talk about religion to and some I don’t.


But if someone is super religious, I don’t really want to be around them. People who do not try to convert you necessarily but who mention it all the time. I’ve met people who talked about god or church 5 times in a 10 minute conversation.

Also if you don’t believe in dinosaurs and think the earth is a thousand years old, I just don’t want to be around that.