Is it normal i pretended to become christian to help my friends ego?

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I have christain friend who is all hardcore evangelism and shit and he tried ministering to me. I lied about my life turning around because of god and shit just because it made him feel good about himself. I feel kinda bad but not that bad. Religious people are annoying so I faked to give him what he wanted just to be nice I guess. Is this normal and am I a horrible person for this?

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  • [Old Memory]
    4 years ago

    Why do people shove their religious beliefs down other peoples' throats? And why do people lie to make others feel good?

    He needs to stop preaching to you. And you need to stop feeding his ego.

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    • Doesnormalmatter
      4 years ago

      If he stopped pursuing me, I would stop. But the key here is that he ALWAYS pursues me, never the other way around.

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      • leggs91200
        4 years ago

        Well, let's take a look from another angle.

        You are on a fairly strict weight training regimen right?
        So, you train religiously.

        AND, sometimes do you do preacher curls for the biceps?

        Plus, the adrenaline rush of a good workout, it is more of a spiritual experience. You know when you are on that head space, sweating, feeling good, lifting hard, maybe even breaking personal max records.

        SO... if all that sounds familiar, you ARE religious in a way.
        BTW, no skipping leg days!

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        • Doesnormalmatter
          4 years ago

          Lol how serious you made that sound made me laugh. But you are exactly right. I have the perfect order of songs lined up and adjust the volume at strategic points. I typically train 13 workouts a week and If I miss one one day i'll make it up the other day or skip class to get er done. If you want a religious expirience, feel what its like to squat until failure. My vision starts to go foggy.

          And on preacher curls, No. I don't program them for myself. I get my bicep work from chin ups and cable rows quite a bit and then I do barbell and sometimes DB bicep curls. They could work its just I'm focusing my attention on tbe big lifts right now.

          Speaking of not skipping leg day, I haven't in 24 straight days. I'm doing squats everyday right now.

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          • leggs91200
            4 years ago

            ehh, thought mentioning preacher curls was called for anyways.

            I know though when training, if one misses a session, he feels like he is shrinking back down to this -

            https://www.shrinkfortheshyguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Skinny-nerd.jpg

            I bet he could whip both our asses...
            on video games.

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            • Doesnormalmatter
              4 years ago

              Ohhhhh. Preacher curls like religion. Only now I see the joke. And yes I know that feeling of missing a workout. I get severe OCD.

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      • [Old Memory]
        4 years ago

        Is there a reason you haven't told him to simply fuck off already?

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        • Doesnormalmatter
          4 years ago

          2 reasons. First off we are friends besides that and fish and work out together and have a good time on occasion. Secondly, I guess I'm just too nice. I know he would be devastated and feel like a failure if he found out I wasn't a Christain.

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          • [Old Memory]
            4 years ago

            Well, I can appreciate the sentiment. Isn't it irritating, though? Listening to all his bullshit when you really don't have to?

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            • Doesnormalmatter
              4 years ago

              Yeah, it is annoying. Not terrible tho. I don't see him often tho so I can live with it. If I tell him to fuck off he will just pursue me more because I'm leaving the faith or some dumb shit. And he goes to my church which I have to go to with my family when I'm in town over the summer sometimes and that would be awkward asf. Its complicated lol.

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  • litelander8
    4 years ago

    Yeah. Either you offend them so they'll fuck off or overly agree to get them to shut the fuck.

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    • Doesnormalmatter
      4 years ago

      Good options lol. I took the second choice.

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  • Boojum
    4 years ago

    There are lots of people in the world who aren't fanatical idiots, so why do you choose to stay friends with one who is?

    Generally speaking, wanting to make others feel good about themselves is a positive, caring thing, but what you're doing is validating his delusions. Would you also go along with a friend who suddenly decided that the earth is flat, or the world is run by shape-shifting alien lizards?

    Life is too short to waste your time and limited energy on making nice to deluded fools. Tell him the truth, leave him to his fantasies, and find other friends.

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    • Doesnormalmatter
      4 years ago

      Well we aren't great friends. I only see him two or three times a year and only during the summer when I'm home from college. We have good times fishing and working out together as well its not like this is the only thing we do together.

      I can tell that he very much has his mind made up in terms of religion so changing his mind is out of the question. I don't only pretend this to help him feel better about himself, but also so he quits bugging me so frequently about it and so we can do other things together more.

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      • Boojum
        4 years ago

        As I'm sure you're aware, the world is full of people with weird beliefs and preoccupations. Sometimes we have no choice but to deal with them, so I suppose you could see the time you spend with the guy as a good opportunity to hone your skills in steering conversations in more positive directions.

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        • Doesnormalmatter
          4 years ago

          Yes indeed. Playing along has helped me understand the fallacies of christianity as well.

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  • DeadRatKing
    4 years ago

    You need to TRULY turn to Christ or you're going to burn in hell!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Doesnormalmatter
      4 years ago

      Even on here people finna start evangelizing to me lol. Fuck off!

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    • LloydAsher
      4 years ago

      Hell is where all the hookers and drugs end up so.

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      • litelander8
        4 years ago

        We can hold hands and skip merrily through the gates.

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  • McBean
    4 years ago

    Well okay. But respectfully, given the good results in 1903, a moon landing was "tractable". Complexity looked like the only constraint. This telomere problem isn't obvious. Genetic machinery to incrementally lengthen telomeres as cells divide is exponentially beyond the enzyme chemistry of telomerase. Plus there's the problem of cancer becoming immortal as a result.

    Anyway, we're digressing. Glad you have a degree in physics. I'm an engineer that's been doing mathematical programming since way back. (Maximum Likelihood and Kalman Filtering among others).

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  • McBean
    4 years ago

    You are a man of faith, my friend. Telomeres look like an intractable problem to most microbiologists. The best thinkers throughout history have accepted anxiety of death as a trait breed into us by natural selection. Many of the IIN faithful would not disagree that a good life is also a simple life: eat, drink, fuck, and publish.

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  • McBean
    4 years ago

    Consider this. Ideas are subject to natural selection in much the same way as living organisms. Bad ideas die out fast. Seductive ones last much longer. Over the centuries, two ideas have been far more successful then all others, 72 virgins, and resurrection of the body. Now, in another century we will still have delusional basket cases born that believe whatever makes them feel good. These two religious fallacies have stood the test of time. Of course, these airheads will accept the nonsense.

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  • howaminotmyself
    4 years ago

    That's how you treat friends?

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    • Doesnormalmatter
      4 years ago

      Most friends, no. This friend, yes. We do other fun stuff together to its not like he preaches to me every time.

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  • dimwitted
    4 years ago

    Of the two I think his actions are worse than yours.

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    • Doesnormalmatter
      4 years ago

      So do I. The question is should I keep playing along or not? What would you do in my situation?

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      • dimwitted
        4 years ago

        Dump him. I don't his other attributes make up for being a religious freak.

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        • Doesnormalmatter
          4 years ago

          I'm thinking about it. Might wait a while tho.

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  • Doesnormalmatter
    4 years ago

    Yeah its pretty fucked. And because of that I think I can justify my dishonesty.

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  • [Old Memory]
    4 years ago

    I don’t blame you. Overly religious people are toxic. Whatever gets them to shut up.

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    • Doesnormalmatter
      4 years ago

      Gee thanks. I can feel better about what I did now hehe

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