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How to maintain friendship when beliefs diverge dramatically

Three of us have been best friends since college and we used to talk about everything, but now one friend has become deeply religious and another has become militantly atheist and I'm caught in the middle watching them hurt each other. Our group texts have become minefields and I miss who we used to be together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The evolution of individual spiritual paths threatens to destroy the intimacy that friendship requires, leaving love and ideology at war.

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