Is getting sick of hearing a friend mention God each and everytime offensive to God?

The question as to how it relates to God is simple. God does not care in the least.

The question about friendship is much more difficult. There are many factors that need to be considered. How open is your communication? What is your usual communication style? Are you two blunt with each other or more diplomatic? These questions and more have to be considered before answering.

How is it mentioned? As in “thank God it wasn’t me in that fire.” Or OMG, look at that!
Or is it a preachy mention?
If the first 2 examples, it’s just a filler word and I would ignore it.
If it’s preaching, I would say something like “hey, that’s not my thing, let’s not have a preaching session every time we talk.”
Oh, and God doesn’t care. He knows where your heart is.

@chyna I think @chyna‘s advice is spot on.

Your friend has other problems – insecurity? Spinelessness? Rationality and cognition? Hard to know.

But anyone who invokes God in every sentence is displaying somewhat irrational behavior. The issue isn’t whether or not God is offended—the issue is: what’s with the person that is causing this outlook/crutch on the world?

Of course, you’ll never get him to understand that.

You could start fawning over Satan, and how the guys at the Satanic Temple have not molested you even once.

@chyna Not preachy but in almost every topic of discussion he involves God. For example, earlier one of our friends mentioned a Mayor in San Francisco died of a heart attack. My religious friend explained if he had called on God quickly to save him from the heart attack that Mayor’s life might have been spared.

@mazingerz88 Psst – that’s preaching. I wouldn’t be ok with that. I would probably say, “I have my religious beliefs and you have yours but I prefer that we keep them to ourselves.” If the friend persists, I would limit my contact with them. I suspect there might be no way to say anything without offending them so you have to decide what you want to do.

It sounds like, to your friend, God is an important thing. I don’t see anything wrong with that as long as he/she isn’t getting crazy about it, trying to save your soul every breath and all that. Most times when a religious person says they will pray for me I have always accepted that with grace, even before I accepted Christ into my life. They are telling you they care so much about you they are going to do what, to them, is the height of power to help you. It’s when they get too demonstrative that the problems occur.

When I was about 16 my brother discovered God and became a born-again Christian almost over night. He took it onto himself to save me. He always wanted to get me to go to church with him and get saved and all that. Being who I am, I started getting obnoxious with him. I finally made him understand that while he found something that was wonderful, I didn’t have that event in my life and didn’t know if I ever would. And I told him that as I saw it, it would be more offensive to God for me to go through some rite I didn’t believe in than to just be myself. That toned things down considerably.

Just explain that you have a view of God that is different from that of your friend, and then explain how specifically your interpretation differs from what your friend just said.

I had a classmate in college that did that. We went to an engineering school and were there to learn how to figure things out. As an example: That rainbow from the prism is beautiful but the important lesson was figuring out the index of refraction of the optical glass so we could predict which way the light would fall on our detectors. He would go on and on about how God created that beautiful pattern – but not know how to answer the question. Jesus is definitely not the answer when you are working on a physics problem. I tolerated it but avoided him as much as I could in other settings.
He flunked out sophomore year so I did not have to deal with it too long.

@LuckyGuy I’m curious – what is he doing today?

I don’t think I could tolerate a friend who talked about God constantly. It would become tiring to have to listen to it or respond to it.

I don’t speak for God but I would presume He will be displeased with you being sick of hearing His praises. Ha!

I would have an honest conversation ith the friend. I respect your beliefs but I feel like you are pushing your religion on me in each conversation. So can you stop or would you prefer not to speak in future?

Like @seawulf575 mentioned, some new Christians are a bit zealous and may need a reminder that everyone feels and believes differently.
They will likely be hurt, so be gentle.

^^I don’t think I could do it, tell this friend I am sick of hearing him mention God. Or in any other way either polite or blunt.

( But hey, I can always vent on Fluther! )

He didn’t use to be like that. We’re friends since high-school and he only started being religious about 12 or 15 years ago. He had some serious misfortunes in life and he joined a Christian church to, I’m assuming seek comfort. I get that. We were both raised Roman Catholic.

I think people who put God in everything have a hard time not doing it.

I most likely would not say anything, because it has to do with their religious beliefs and I am loathe to say anything that might seem like I have a problem with the way someone practices their religion. I’d just usually ignore it as their thing. If it was really getting to be too much and annoying I might not spend as much time with them.

Maybe I would say, “I’m not religious and I noticed you put God into everything.” See how they respond.

If they realize it might make me uncomfortable that’s good, and I would tell them I’m not accustomed to people wearing religion on their sleeve, it sometimes is uncomfortable.

If they say they want God to know they bear witness, then I know I can’t expect them to stop.

If they say they hope I can find my way to Jesus Christ, I know there is probably a problem, and I would tell them thank you for caring about me, but I’m not interested.

Since there is no “God,” no.

@mazinger88 A cradle Catholic acting that pious as an adult?! Is he running for office?

Its actually not that uncommon, to take a break and rediscover the beauty, history and comfort of the Church rituals. One of my friends is also going back and finds it very cathartic mentally.

Life’s tough, let people find solace however the can, I say. :)

@elbanditoroso I don’t know what happened to him. I lost track of him immediately. ~It was God’s will.

@LuckyGuy
I would like to imagine he took a boat to a tropical island trying to proselytise to some native tribe and got rewarded with an arrow to the throat.

Each and every time?

@ragingloli I know the story you’re referring to. Why can’t people get the message to leave them alone?

By the way this same classmate got sucked into selling Amway products within the first few months of the year. That was when I decided I would never buy something in a program like that – even if I could use the product and it was reasonably priced. Nope!

@LuckyGuy
Religion and ponzi schemes. Lots in common, if you think about it.

Okay, Christian here. And I’ve been reading everybody’s responses with great interest. I know just in terms of anything, I don’t like when people shove their opinions down my throat. So even though I am passionate about what I believe, and I might bring it up at some point in the conversation if it’s relevant, I know that I would never do what this person is doing in the question. I think most people do not respond well to being beaten over the head, so to speak, with anything, so that if you really are trying to reach somebody and bring them around to what you believe, that’s probably not the best way to do it anyway.

As far as how to respond, that is a tough question. If this is a friend, I’m sure you don’t want to offend them but maybe you could just tell them that while you realize they are passionate about what they believe, you don’t feel the same way and so when they are constantly only talking about that, it’s a bit of a turn-off. I don’t know, even that might not be the best so I’m not sure what to say, sorry.