Could you be a friend with a christian?

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My best friend is an atheist, and he is friends with a Mormon missionary. I'm agnostic, and I have Christian, Pagan, atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Jewish friends.

So long as you are open minded about others beliefs, you can make many friends.

The way I made many friends are s visiting religious services. Not just church, but temples, Ramadan, mosques, etc. it's fun, interesting, and a good way to meet people.

And, if somebody gives you a hard time about your religion, they aren't worth being friends with anyway.

I've had many friends over the years who have identified as Christian. Most of them just seem like normal people to me.

Most friends I've had have been really different people to me but still the same enough to find common ground.

Anyway, yeah, I am mostly agnostic and can be friends with people of all religions. I just have a problem with religious extremists (which you and many other christians are not). Mild religious people are fine though.

However, I can still see why you and many others can see how religious differences can change relationships. In my experiences many people have shown while they can be friends with someone of a different religion/belief system, they just cannot date/marry one.

I wouldn't care what religion she/he had, as long as they wouldn't try to force their religion down my throat

As long as they respect others, don't push their religion, and don't go out of their way to condemn others and make them feel bad, it's no problem being friends with Christians.

I've been christian, atheist, antagonistic, and now agnostic.
My approach is simple- "If you want in one god, fine. If you want to believe in many gods, fine. If you want to believe a giant purple goat sneezed reality into existence, fine. As long as you don't try to force your belief(s) on me, we won't have a problem"
I'm fine with making another friend. I'd relish another mind to converse with. I do tend to avoid the subjects of religion and politics since usually somebody (not me) ends up with hurt feelings.

I don't really care if someone is a christian, as long as they aren't pushing it on me and don't put me down for not being one....and have some similar interests, thus a reason to hang out then I would be open to a friendship.

Yeah. I consider myself to have 3 semi strong friends. One's a follower of Norse Paganism/Asatru. One's somewhere between Agnostic and Atheist. The other is a reformed? Catholic, he doesn't take everything he was taught to heart, he's a progressive individual. I myself am somewhere between deism and agnostic and am pretty spiritual. Religion isn't that big of a deal to me unless you get militant about it.

It's weird to think back that everyone who burned me in my youth were Christian, but I suppose that's just because I grew up in the Midwest of America. I don't harbor ill thoughts against Christians. Like I said I do however dislike those that are militant and would force their religious dogma on others.

I'm a Christian (Lutheran to be specific) and have no problems being friends with people of other/no faiths.