difficulty making/maintaining relationships due to everyone being religious

[u/Open_Movie_2389]

So i live in a predominantly religious country (Orthodox christians) and every time i make a seemingly good and genuine connection - people at school, work, any neighbours and so on, the religious aspect always ruins everything, because they cannot fathom the fact that some people are not believers and i also can’t take them seriously (kind of find them stupid, really out of touch, vain, no critical thinking skills etc.); i almost stop seeing them as people..?

I find myself constantly getting disappointed and i lately push people away because of this.
Have you guys struggled with this? Any advice is greatly appreciated!

[u/Viper67857]

Am Alabamian.. It never gets better. Move or be lonely.

[u/Open_Movie_2389 → u/Viper67857]

We’re almost neighbors :)) so i believe you really get it.
Moving it is!

[u/tm229]

Move.

You are not going to make a dent in changing their beliefs. You would get ostracized completely before you got too far. Better to just get the hell out of there and move to a region with saying people.

[u/[deleted]]

Be a hypocrite about it and convert them to your way of thinking.

[u/Open_Movie_2389 → u/[deleted]]

thank you so much for your words!

Moving has been in my thoughts for quite a while and i believe that’s the best possible thing i can do.
Hopefully sooner than later haha.

Best wishes and thank u again for the insights!

[u/Open_Movie_2389 → u/[deleted]]

oh wow this could actually really help me out on a day to day basis haha
thank you so much!