When it comes to social media, I am the Queen of unfollowing, moving people into groups to limit what they can see, and am not afraid to unfriend people I dislike and don't care about. My social media accounts (Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter) are actually rather pleasant places because of this. I'm friends with a lot of writers so my feeds are mostly full of posts about books, writing, and other creative pursuits. However, I have reached my limit of adding more religious people to my circle. An old friend friended me on FB the other day. I went to check out his feed to see if I could garner any information about the person he is today before I accepted his friend request. Dude is a full on Baptist missionary to the Dominican Republic. His FB is FULL of constant and unending posts about God, missions work, and scripture. Now, although I understand this is how he makes a living and has dedicated his life too, I just couldn't accept that friend request. I have so many religious people still in my life and I just can't handle another person. Nevermind that it kind of makes me sad now. Once upon a time, I would have considered what he was doing to be noble. Those days are long gone, even before my deconversion. What I see now is a wasted life and wasted potential, converting people who don't need to be converted to a religion that isn't true. It makes me sad to see his three kids and know how they are being heavily indoctrinated to believe this and the chances of them escaping this religion are so low. And I don't think they really want to be friends with me either. Not just in a FB way but in a personal way. If these people knew who I was now I would just become another conversion mission. And I am kind of done with reconnecting with people who wouldn't like me as I am now. I am also done making new friends in real life who see me as a conversion challenge. Right before I left my most recent job, one of my co-workers said she wanted to have lunch with me, which was odd because in the 5+ years I worked there we never had lunch together. Turns out she wanted to talk about God and invite me to her church for Easter. This made me sad and I politely told her that although I can see she loves her church, but nothing she told me showed me that it was anything different from anything I had been to before. I didn't accept her friend request either.
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