Could you be/are you best friends with someone of another faith?

Question

I know you don't choose your family and you can't really help what they believe. But you do choose best friends- the next closest thing to family, and in some cases, someone who is closer than family.
So could you really be best friends with someone of another faith? What conditions would there be on this?

Grammer: I know some people just couldn't do it, and I was wondering if that was common.

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Answer 1

I am atheist,my closest friends are eastern orthodox,catholic,methodist,and pagan.What is truly funny to me is we all see the same world,all feel the same things are important,and all work well together.The only difference we have is in how we got here.

Answer 2

Of course, don't let some old religion restrict you from making friends. You should be free to choose your friends, but take care to know them well and make sure they are not some of those bad friends. Religion is willing follow not forced to abide by everything. If your friendship isn't harming anybody then you can be friends with whoever you want. Don't let a little thing like religion get in the way a friendship.

Answer 3

Two of my most beloved friends are atheists. One of my closest friends who sadly lives very far away is a pagan.

So yes. Yes I can and Yes I do.

Most of my family is not Christian. I love my heathen family.

I dislike the comment by Via that "grown ups" are above the whole "best friend" thing. That's talking down to someone younger and utterly uncalled for. Younger people have a lot to teach us if we just listen.

Answer 4

A different religion would not bother me. I enjoy talking to and being around people of other faiths. It is when there are fundamentalists that insist that everyone who disagrees is there for wrong, that I have problems.

Many of my friends are of various faiths anyways. I care less about the faith than whether or not a person is worthwhile to have around in my life.

Answer 5

My best two friends when I was on board ship in the Navy were Mormons.

RD2 Kemp and PC2 Bell.

They were the first two Mormons I had ever met and at that time I didn't understand how un-Biblical their teachings are.

They were both trying to convert me to their religion.

I'm still friends with lots of Catholics and Lutherans and United Methodists, who do not fit the Bible's definition of Christian.

And I'm friends with lots of Baptists even though the first time I ever visited a Baptist church they tried to kick me out. You see I was wearing my "sinful and worldly bell bottom trousers" which those Baptists did not approve of.

I refer to my US Navy Dress Blue Uniform.

Pastor Art

Answer 6

I could never be best friends with a right wing theist. In general I can't stand being around closed minded, uneducated people that lack common sense and the ability to reason. So when it comes to religion, I just can't see myself being able to deal with their beliefs and not become annoyed. I already become annoyed by people that always talk about God or talk about praying for someone. I just don't want those type of people as my close friends. Associates yes, close friends, no.

Answer 7

I have to answer no because of a situation currently transpiring in my own life. My best friend for the last 9 years is the girl that actually helped me to understand what a walk with Jesus was. She basically is the person God used to get me saved. She has been my best friend because she is the best person I can think to share my struggles with and get advice that is going to fit with my beliefs. I wouldn't want advice from someone who had a different world view.

Over the last few years I have watched this friend change and her beliefs are no longer in line with mine, and I no longer feel I can trust her to give me sound advice according to my beliefs, nor does she listen to my advice. This is heartbreaking, as I've said, she's been my best friend for 9 years. I hate to even think it, but if I'm honest with myself, I have to admit that I no longer trust her words of wisdom because of the direction I've seen her life take. We are still friends, and I love her to death, but I can no longer have real heart to heart talks with her because we no longer share the same set of beliefs regarding eternal issues.

I can be, and am, friends with anyone of any belief, but to me, a best friend (and a spouse) must have the same view of life. Christ is at my core for making decisions, so any other view would be basically pointless to me in my process. I believe what I believe, and I have to base my life on that belief, or I don't really believe it.

Answer 8

My 4 best friends used to be all Christian.
I still have these best friends, but now only 2 are Christian.
It's almost like I rubbed off onto my 2 now Agnostic and Atheist friends.
Note these are just my closest friends, the rest of them are mostly Christian, with the exception of an Atheist and Wiccan.
How does it work with my Christian friends? It works just fine. We typically have other things to talk about than religion. Of course we enjoy religious debate sometimes, but we don't fight about it.

Answer 9

Yes you could be bestfriends with another faith
and the conditions are:
1. Don't talk about subjects you know you
both won't and will never agree.
2. Try to look pass over each other's beliefs.
3 Enjoy each others company.
4. Accept and understand who they are,
and what they stands for.
=)

Answer 10

i think there's nothing wrong with having friends of a different faith. I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (commonly known as LDS or Mormon), and i do live in Utah now, so the majority is "Mormon", but 3 years ago i lived in Illinois, and almost no one was "Mormon." i made lots of friends. i still have friends here that aren't members. There's nothing wrong with that. I just make sure that they have good standards and wont pressure me into lowering my standards.