I never though...

When it comes to friends the best route is to keep religion and polotics out of the playing feild, unless you know for a fact that both you and your friend are responsible and understanding enough to know that friendship comes before such trivial things.

Some people can't handle other people's world views. That's just how it is, and if you want to keep a good friend, the best thing to do is to never push your ideals onto them, unless it's for their own good, as in life or death or some other extreme.

And as far as being friends with closed minded people goes, I'm not for it. I can attempt to open their minds to knew ways of thinking and different views, but some people cannot be persuaded. The human mind is a crazy thing, sometimes you just get so caught up with the way you think the world ought to be that any other way of thought is crazy or disgusting. These kind of people are not the kind of people I need to associate myself with.

Jam it back in, in the dark.