Are most of your friends the same religion as you?

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Being under attack can be a good thing. “If the world hates you remember that it hated me first”. When the world stops hating us, that is when we should worry.
 
Sorry man. It’s times like these I wish CAF still had that animated hug emoticon.
 
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Don’t worry! Pokemon has got it covered
 
I think most of my friends are atheists. I have one Catholic friend but he think’s the papacy is stupid…
 
In my all-girls high school, we had this saying: who needs men when you have Pokemon
 
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At least in Pokemon nearly everyone is friendly and even the “bad guys” are simply misguided. The world of Pokemon must be pretty safe to let 10 year olds wander around unaccompanied 🤔
 
So, do you keep those gifs in a library or something? You pull them up so fast.
 
Google is ever present. I keep a separate window open and I search as needed 🤓 Perhaps having an iPhone helps? :man_shrugging:t2:
 
I have an iPhone and am never that fast at it. It usually frustrates my efforts.
 
I have made some friends through RCIA, but aside from them, I only have one good Catholic friend. Everyone else is atheist, or various flavours of Christian.
 
I rarely make friends with Catholics. Some of the most unsuitable people in the world for me to make friends with are Catholic, as well. It shouldn’t be that way, but it has turned out that way for me.
Except for my dear deceased parents that is.
 
  1. my two closest friends (including myself) are atheists, one originally being jewish, the other being orthodox, with myself as a former catholic
  2. i figure they see me as having similar ideas to them, even if we have slight political differences.
  3. we talk about philosophies and apologetics sometimes, though for us it’s more about picking them apart than trying to convert anybody
 
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Are most of your friends the same religion as you?
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I have very few friends I talk to much and super-regularly, but yes a great deal of my acquaintances, online or otherwise, are Catholic. But lots of them also aren’t. In my semi-closest circle of friends, the Catholics may barely outnumber the non-Catholics. In my very closest circle of friends, which includes a couple of close relatives, the non-Catholics barely outnumber the Catholics.
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How do your non religious friends view you?
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I have no idea, since my non-religious friends and acquaintances don’t tell me how they view me. Not usually. I’ve had a person or two say they’re not particularly religious but they respect it, so that’s good. That doesn’t mean they agree with it or even like it, and they’d probably get annoyed if I were to browbeat them, but they seem to understand that I’m just trying to follow what I believe in, and they respect that even if they don’t believe it too. I guess it’s similar to the way I myself look at people who believe in other religions: I might not agree, and might not even like some of their beliefs, but I respect them for sincerely trying to do what they think is right, even in some cases where I might even oppose them. That’s usually all I ask of others too.
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Do you try to influence your friend’s ?
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You’d have to define “influence.” I don’t browbeat, but I absolutely do think we have a duty to point toward God for people, and I hope I do. I just think you don’t have to try to argue people into it, or browbeat them for embracing things we find sinful when, if they don’t even share our religion yet, that’s putting the cart before the horse. Instead I think just by living your Faith openly, just by being open that you’re an orthodox, practicing Catholic, and being open about your love for God and how valuable an orthodox practice of the Faith is to you, you’re already evangelizing without ever having to browbeat or shame people. Because evangelizing isn’t about arguing or browbeating, but pointing to God and His Church. Just by living your Faith openly, proudly, and by name, you’re doing that. I guess I could say it this way: Don’t hide your lamp under a bushel, but that doesn’t mean you have to burn people with it. I try to walk that line, though I’m still learning.

Edit: Just noticed you aren’t Catholic, OP, but I think you probably can still get where coming from with the general idea of my answers. 🙂
 
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No, they aren’t

I have no idea. Some kind of rad trad perhaps

Yes, I try to influence them all the time. And I have been fishing some. By the way, to spread the word of God is totally different from proselytism. The latter involves convertion by force.
 
None of them are Catholic, but I haven’t been Catholic long myself.
I kinda like it at this point; this early I feel like it would be a distraction.
 
Everyone in my family and my husband’s family is Protestant.
My best friend is Catholic (and the only Catholic I know)
Another close friend who was raised Catholic is now Atheist
Two friends are Pagan (though one of them seems to be referencing Christianity the past year or so)

I am Protestant, but I want to convert.
 
I think Catholic parishes are environments that some folk really struggle in socially. I have some people I talk to at tea and coffee but it took almost 2 years to get to that point.
 
Catholic parishes are not places to make friends but are only for the Worship of Christ.

Friendship is best attained outside of the Mass
 
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