Whenever I see a Facebook screen cap argument on this subreddit.

lizzykins97 · 1 month

People change over time. Someone who was your best friend in grade/high school may have become more religious as you became less religious. You are friends with them because you shared a friendship, and despite having dissimilar views on the world, you still have those moments in common. They don't always post those kinds of things on Facebook, but when they do it usually catches you off guard that someone who used to be your best friend could harbor such hateful prejudices. But if the posts don't occur very often, you rarely get upset enough to delete them off of Facebook.

klaymankombat · 1 month

Well a lot of the time, other than their religion (that you might not even know about) they're totally cool people. This works in reverse too, a few christian friends of mine have admitted that they're closet-skeptics, and i would have never known or asked. In my experience, people for the most part keep their religion to themselves, it's only when they're poked (no pun intended) and prodded that they unleash their true colors.

HBlight · 1 month

Because some idiots can still be helpful and good.... while still being idiots.

Honestly if people were not friends with me because of my flaws I would not have any fr... bad example.

darklooshkin · 1 month

Because they're as addicted to real-world drama as anybody else that was forced to watch soap operas because mom hogged the controller when they were kids? Well, that and facebook is the socially acceptable Big Brother; get a large enough group of 'friends' together and there'll always be someone doing something incredibly stupid as a result.

grumpyoldfart · 1 month

I think that every time. I also wonder why they would post such stupidity from one of their "friends?. Don't they realize how it reflects on them?

artistadomundo · 1 month

It's important to be friends with people with differing views! On the one hand, it keeps you honest in your ideas about the world. On the other, making people aware that their opinion/ideas/beliefs aren't the majority helps weaken the negative ones.

I'll always be friends with my evangelical friends as long as they'll be mine!

Mannycu · 1 month

There's the hope that, over time, you might be able to make their lives just a tiny bit better by challenging their previously unchallenged notions of "good" and "bad" as it relates to religion. Even then, simply a disagreement about faith (etc) shouldn't be a deal breaker on a friendship you've invested a great amount of time on.

Dick_Dynamo · 1 month

For reddit karma

rt79w · 1 month

Otherwise facebook would be boring as shit.

Momordicas · 1 month

For karma :P

bibliophile190 · 1 month

Because karma.

DoubleRaptor · 1 month

I always wonder why it's not in /r/TheFacebookDelusion, to which I do not subscribe.

In most of the cases the discussion ends up being just regurgitated facts that everyone already knows or could find out if they were curious. I have no problem with that discussion taking place, intellectual debate is one of the finest things someone can engage in, I just don't think it's really something to show off about.

Wingflier · 1 month

NO SHIT

calis · 1 month

If I chose to only associate with people that had the very same ideals as me I would be be very lonely.

lumpydumdums · 1 month

I have friends who I get along with great, we have the same sense of humor, we like to do the same things, but they're Christians. I'm not going to unfriend them and not hang out with them because of that.

Grateful_max · 1 month

Karma.

Madderp · 1 month

Because it brings in karma.

gobberpooper · 1 month

Just because they're religious and have arguments doesn't mean they're not friends otherwise.

zubie_wanders · 1 month

Come on, we all know there are two types of friends on facebook.

PaddleFaster-BANJOS · 1 month

They aren't. So many of them are fake facebook conversation makers - that they then screen cap and post on reddit because they think it makes them look smart or gives them karma.

Mosrhun · 1 month

Co-workers possibly as well. I ran into my first debate with a co-worker on facebook last night.

Good guy atheist: Takes a shit all over fundamentalist debate, doesn't screencap.

lil_buddha · 1 month

Then you see the upvotes and realise that some friends are kept solely for karma farming.

dt25 · 1 month

For me, it's because unlike most religious people I don't discriminate based on their beliefs.

If they want to de-friend me, I won't bother, but for me to de-friend them just because they say something that annoys me, it would seem as if I wanted to live in my own small world, which I really don't.

dr_haggz · 1 month

Because to "unfriend" people on facebook over their chosen religion or lack thereof is one step away from doing it based on sexual orientation, race, creed etc

watchesarecool42 · 1 month

My guess is that maybe they're family or a next door neighbor that would never let you forget that you unfriended them.

redzdevilz · 1 month

For the lulz?

simjanes2k · 1 month

It must be nice to always agree about everything with all your friends.

You may notice when you start getting letter grades instead of gold stars, that changes a little.

Vlyn · 1 month

I've seen this picture too often now… rot… rot in the blue pits of downvote hell, rot I say!

coowhipp · 1 month

Yep, there is this thing called meeting new people.


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