Enjoy your cruise. I have some shallow friends, you do too. Half the stuff posted on FB has no relevance to the poster or reader. Some ppl don't even have the capacity to understand any other reality. .. So... Just have fun!

AAK! I would have a field day with this person. . .

"God-given choice"? No. Holy Fallacy of poisoning the well. God, rather the lack of a god, had nothing to do with choice to find no supporting/testable evidence to confirm your asserted but not supported god exists.

• • • I could go on and fill a page or two but rather sure you share the same face-palm response. I openly attack, point by point - each and every face-palm assertions when I encounter such lame theists.

• Once had a Catholic ask to be my friend on Facebook. I warned her this would not be in her best interest. As predicted she posted a Catholic Anti-Choice meme and I slaughtered her. She left in tears.

If your friend is, simple (not very bright) or mentally not healthy, emotionally dependent, I would consider finding a more suitable person to share your life with. If she is just a maul-informed theist. May be fun to school her.

I would also be very glad she is not joining you on your vacation. Usually takes a few hundred hours of work to fix theists that are that deluded.

If you're wrong you wasted a lot of time and energy for nothing. If we're wrong there is no downside because god's plan is god's plan and no amount of praying can change it

It might be worthwhile to address the post with her after you get back from your cruise. Maybe that would be a good time to "come out" to her and let her know that--while you don't feel her post was directed at you personally--it did bother you because it implies certain things about "many" Atheists, which is completely inaccurate, and not accurate about you. Or you could just let the whole thing go and wait for a more opportune time. Have fun on your cruise! They are a total blast!

Post this!

Beliefs and how people chose to react towards or against, I truly don't care a single bit at all. Now, the cruise, that's a different story !!!!... Where are you headed??? Do tell !!!!!

I mean yeah I guess
Technically she’s not wrong
If we are wrong
It’s gonna be a rough go for us in the end!
??????????

Please put quote marks around your friend's anti-atheist rant. I thought you wrote that.

Glad you are not going to be stuck on a cruise with her. Or worse, sharing a room.

I cannot think of anything more annoying than being trapped on a cruise with someone I cannot stand. So this is ... a good thing.

Religious people have hard time imagining the horrors that their religion has caused in the past, is continuing to cause in the present, and is likely to cause in the future. They are oblivious to the harm that it is causing them. I think I am pretty inoculated against it, but I wouldn't want to be around someone in full bloom with the symptoms of it.... I used to be a fairly outspoken anti-theist, but I am just tired of them now. I wonder, whether they will see this comment as "mocking" them....

Perhaps you should leave a comment asking how come she didn’t know you are an atheist after all these years if this is what atheists do.

I'm not going to elaborate in depth, but according to most religions even if you believe in a god you're still going to hell if it's not the one true god, or if you pray the wrong way or misinterpret its vague and contradictory teachings.

There are numerous sites that debunk Pascal's wager and could explain to her exactly what she loses. The biggest for me is that you live a lie denying yourself pleasures in your real life for rewards in an imaginary afterlife.

I think you should consider yourself lucky that she's not going.

You consider not being her friend anymore. She showed her true colors with that post. If that person doesn't know your an atheist, tell her and give her dose of reality.

We've got to all stop blaming everyone for everything because of shared labels, and we've got to stop acting as if we're all united behind a common label as well.

It was a small minded act to post that and honestly there are quite a few theists who create and share posts like that because of their insecurities, and there's a lot of atheists who do the same. She may just have felt particularly stubborn that day and decided she wanted to share it or maybe an atheist somewhere was rude to her. Either way IMHO give her the benefit of the doubt as a friend. Good Luck.

" It'll be just me and my best friend, originally we had asked another friend from college to join us and due to scheduling issues she couldn't join.."

So you got room for a replacement third?