As a Christian who doesn’t follow much of the super religious “rules”, I think it’s kind of a red flag but sometimes it’s not. Red flag because my girlfriend’s ex-friend was super devout and put it all over her bio and was very ableist and homophobic. My friend, for example, is agnostic, so he’s not sure if spirituality exists. He has a friend who’s super devout and constantly talks about Christianity. She has a Discord server about Christianity and most of her friends are Christian who just talk about Jesus and God all the time. She puts the crosses and bible verses in her bio too. She’s very nice and tries to be accepting but seems kinda judgmental or like “Oh, your non-traditional ways are… nice I guess.”

She constantly asks my friend how his relationship with God is and if he reads the Bible and what his favorite verses are, even when he says he’s not super religious.

My mom as of recent has become super religious, and while she is pretty left-leaning, thinks the only way to believe is to be Christian and you HAVE to believe in Jesus or you’ll die instead of live forever in Heaven.

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    4 days ago

    Alright. Your mom is definitely more over the edge than my mom. Mine has talked about it as a way of being with loved ones again after she dies. Death is scary. Mom is pretty old. As such, I don’t see the problem here. Peaceful death as a goal, in my mind, isn’t a bad thing. Her conception per how she talks about it includes her though, not the world.

    What you describe, however, pushes it onto other people. The necessary boundary against religious twisting is lacking.

    Again, this is a conversation you need to have together.