Discerning friendships

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Because I wasn’t even trying to be offensive. Also, not taking offense at everything is good for your peace of mind.
 
SacredHeartBassist said:
stop being friends with those who are not catholic because it’s hard or draining.
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If it’s that much trouble being friends with them, they can take a hike! I’m far too busy to nurture dead relationships.
 
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Because I wasn’t even trying to be offensive. Also, not taking offense at everything is good for your peace of mind.
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I’m not judging your intent: I’m pointing out that you used shoddy statistics as “evidence” for an offensive generalization. That’s hardly “taking offense at everything.” Also, please be so kind as to refrain from condescendingly telling me what’s good for my peace of mind.
 
I still fail to see how the idea that women and men might have a more difficult time at different things might be offensive.
 
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I think some people woke up on the wrong side of CAF today 🤔
 
I carved it out of stone while walking up hill both ways under a barrages of bad posts :crazy_face:
 
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Of course 😉
 
There used to be a really good hug emoji on the old CAF. I miss it.
 
Well, if it would clear up any misconception that I had malicious intent or thought that there were no exceptions.
 
As Catholics we can have an interest in Catholics marrying Catholics and perpetuating the faith. There’s nothing wrong with that.

There’s a big tendency for people nowadays to get ancy when they don’t fit a stereotype or an ideal. That’s what bothered me about your post: “Seriously, this is borderline offensive to me.” How can it possibly be offensive? It just differs from how you see things. It was never MEANT to be offensive.
 
I am sorry. To Tis Bearself and not to you.
 
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I agree 100% about dating fellow Christians. Being unequally yoked is a recipe for trouble on several levels, even if it doesn’t lead to marriage or children. If a couple lives in two separate spiritual, philosophical, and moral universes … well, what other sort of compatibility can possibly compensate for that radical chasm?

As for being friends only with fellow Christians: you must do what you think best. The Gospels suggest that Christ himself was friends with any number of religious types (and sometimes seemed to find pagan soldiers and bureaucrats better company than His fellow Jews!) I don’t think it’s wrong to have non-Christian friends, but not every Christian is strong in all the same ways and in all the same places. Let Romans 14 be your guide: if you think non-Christian company is likely to pose a stumbling-block, then choose your friends accordingly, and don’t let anyone give you a hard time about it. If others of your Christian brethren don’t feel that way, be okay with that about them.
 
I don’t think it’s necessary wrong but it makes things easier though.
 
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