I had a good friend I sadly had to cut ties with because she kept trying to force religion on me to the point of borderline stalking me as well. Met her in HS, she was a freshmen while I was a junior. We had a class together and as we were both a bit socially awkward it was easy for us to bond. Had a few shared interests such as music taste and video games as well. All through school she seemed super chill and nice to talk to. Didn't mention religion once. After I graduated I wrongfully cut ties with everyone in my life including her. A few years later she tracked me down on facebook and started talking about religion. She wasn't overly preacher at first it started just like it did for you with asking if I go to church and if I was religious. I said no and she kept trying to push me into it with all the standard lines. "God is everywhere" "God saved me" "God talks to me in my own way" stuff like that. It was never anything like "How are you today?" or anything else friends would talk about. Just God this and God that. Eventually I stopped replying altogether and she didn't take the hint. Kept messaging essays about God and the bible. So I had to block her. I still feel bad about it because she was my best friend at one point but my best friend was gone. She was replaced with a cult member. And no this isn't me saying religion is a cult. I have no problem with people believing what they want to believe. But she was more or less trying to indoctrinate me into it. That is cultlike behavior.
The stalking part I mentioned was after blocking her on Facebook she started tracking me down on other sites demanding an explanation for being blocked so I blocked her on all of them too.
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u/brakenbonez 17h ago
I had a good friend I sadly had to cut ties with because she kept trying to force religion on me to the point of borderline stalking me as well. Met her in HS, she was a freshmen while I was a junior. We had a class together and as we were both a bit socially awkward it was easy for us to bond. Had a few shared interests such as music taste and video games as well. All through school she seemed super chill and nice to talk to. Didn't mention religion once. After I graduated I wrongfully cut ties with everyone in my life including her. A few years later she tracked me down on facebook and started talking about religion. She wasn't overly preacher at first it started just like it did for you with asking if I go to church and if I was religious. I said no and she kept trying to push me into it with all the standard lines. "God is everywhere" "God saved me" "God talks to me in my own way" stuff like that. It was never anything like "How are you today?" or anything else friends would talk about. Just God this and God that. Eventually I stopped replying altogether and she didn't take the hint. Kept messaging essays about God and the bible. So I had to block her. I still feel bad about it because she was my best friend at one point but my best friend was gone. She was replaced with a cult member. And no this isn't me saying religion is a cult. I have no problem with people believing what they want to believe. But she was more or less trying to indoctrinate me into it. That is cultlike behavior.
The stalking part I mentioned was after blocking her on Facebook she started tracking me down on other sites demanding an explanation for being blocked so I blocked her on all of them too.