Does religion affect your friendship?

I am a Christian, and I have friends who are muslims, hindus, buddhists and atheists, and it hasn't been a problem in our friendship, because we respect eachother and respect our differences. One of my ex-boyfriends and I were from different religions and we talked a lot about religion. We never agreed on this topic, but our different religions wasn't a problem in our relationship. I have also some friends who refuse to talk about our different religions, but we are able to talk everything else, and I find it okay that they don't want to discuss this topic.

No because I don't care what a some else religion is as long as they are not pushing it down my throat 24/7. Dhysanne does your "as long as we believe in one true god" remark mean that you would not be friends with an atheist of agnostic?

As long as we believe in One True God, we still remain friends I disagree completely....first off NOBODY NEEDS to believe in ANY god...and secondly...religion really not need to be part of the equation within friendships or any relationship for that matter..I am Pagan/Buddhist and have friends of ALL walks of life and religious paths...I dont bring ppl into my life and call them "friend" becuase of their religious choices..thats none of my biz...What they believe or dont believe is of absolutley no concern of mine

I got friends from all around the world and they are of different religions too, we are friends and very good ones till now because we have a very open minded approach to religion, we can be from different religion but we are one, this is our moto when we are together.

well, as long as I have only friends who are Christians just like me, I don't have any problems with it, but even if I meet people from other religions and they become my friends, I wont reject them just becaues they have a different religion and I will treat them like all my other friends, because for me that what is important is to know that they respect me and trust me, religion is not important at all in friendship!

I thing a friendship not related to religion at all, I made friend with people from other religion. I don't see it as a big problem as long you have the same common interested and respecting each others. Few of my best friend are from different religion but we are getting along really good, So I can say religion not effecting my friendship.

I have lots of friends from different religions and I must say that I really don't care about what is their religion as long they do not hurt or make damage to other people life.

I have atheist friends, Christian friends, even a buddhist friend. And plenty non-religious. So to answer your question, no religion doesn't effect my friendships. I respect their faith (or lack thereof) and they respect mine. We will have discussions about it sometimes, but we never let it get hostile.

sometimes it affects. we don't celebrate the same holiday, so we often busy at the different time. when she got busy i am in relax time, so as the contradictory. So we are not hang out together as often as we can.

My religious beliefs have nothing to do with anyone else. It is something personal and private. If friends have other beliefs that is their prerogative. It is certainly not a prerequisite for a friendship as far as I am concerned to have to have the same beliefs. At the end of the day it all comes down to one basic thing. And that is called tolerance.

Religion doesnt have to change anything if we are talking about friendship among people with different beliefs. I had bunch of friends when I was in college and we belong to different sects. One was a born again, the other one an Iglesia ni Kristo, the other two are Seventh day Adventists, another one a catholic and me an LDS. There was never a time that we argued about our beliefs cause we understand each other and respect each other.

I have so many friends, some are Hindus, some are Muslims and there are some who do not practice any religion. I get along with them, because I do not discuss religion unless of course someone ask me to explain to them about my religion. Religion should not affect your friendship. I expect them to respect my religion as much as I respect their religion.

Friends will be friends afer all. But we should also respect their faith and the one that they believe for us to make friendship grow and last. One must understand our friends.

in our place, most of us have the same religion(Catholic) so i never really experienced such situations wherein my friend is on a different religion.

I usually do not discuss religions with friends at all. But this sometimes imply to them that they can get me converted to their religions. I remember having an Indian friend back in high school. Well, we stayed friends till two years of college. Throughout that time she tried her best to convert me to hinduism. For instance, many times she tried to take me for worshipping the deities. I always came up with an excuse to avoid it because I like seeing the worshipping from far. It is interesting, but my conscience does not allow me to take part in it totally. Then I had a conservative Christian boyfriend. He tried to convert me also. But it turned out that his preaching usually was cancelled out by my calm logic. And I am a progressive Muslim and the biggest clash I had was with my conservative Muslim friends. They used to try to influence me to be like them, but I again cancelled out their preaching with logic. I was usually non judgemental when they approached me with all that. Yes, I have been told by Muslim friends that my way would get me in hell. The funniest thing was that I never really told them that their way was wrong because I knew it was their personal matter. Many times some tried to tell me that my religion is false! This is usually done by the conservative ones. I suppose this whole blindness towards their religions just do not let them be civlized. But I make sure that I do not make fun of anybody's religion and stay away from anything that is "anti" for them. For instance, although I am crazy about metal I never listen to black metal leaned towards anti christ stuff because I feel uncomfortable to see a religion getting insulted. Overall, I do not like discussing religions because I know all have their own perspective on how they see God.

i agree.. because it depends how you understand each other.. the both of you became friends because you both like and love each other as a friend.. so i think you have to understand and respect each others opinion.