After a series of silly and irrelevant events following a party, a former acquaintance of mine was talking to my best friend. This former acquaintance said about me, "I can't be friends with her, anyway. She's an atheist or something. And I'm a Catholic."
I've been puzzling over this for some time now. Personally, I think she was unable to be an adult and look me in the face about those irrelevant events I spoke of. However, it seemed amusing to me that someone would use their religious belief in such a manner.
What's even funnier to me is that I'm not an atheist. I'm agnostic. But she seems to think there's no difference. Or that we're all the same. Or maybe she doesn't know the difference.
As I'm unable (and maybe a little unwilling) to contact her myself, can someone please explain this logic to me? Why do some people feel that friendships cannot happen between people with different beliefs? And if that wasn't her motivation, why would anyone use their beliefs in such a manner?
2007-06-14
15:44:34
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