I'm at a bit of a loss and hoping some of the wonderful people here can help explain this. Although raised a Christian, I haven't actively practiced for a few years. In the past year I've undergone a lot of introspection, etc. and realized that I never really believed the Christian values and that there were just too many things that *for me* did not work in the Christian faith. My DH ws going through a similar soul searching at this time and we realized that we've probably always been more affiliated with paganism. It works for us, it fits us, and we've found a good deal of joy and contentment with it. What we do not do is go around advertising it, pushing it on people or really even bringing it up or mentioning it. For one thing, there's a lot of hostility out there towards paganism for some reason (no it's not satanic and no we don't sacrifice anything, etc.), and for another reason, I have no problem whatsoever respecting the fact that most people are not pagans. In our families and group of friends, the majority of people are Christians, and though that wasn't a good fit for us, I respect that it is for them.
Why is it so terribly hard to get the same respect from others? Few know of what we follow, but of those that do, the ones who follow the Christian faith will.not.drop.it. I mean, suddenly every conversation has them praising God or throwing out some obvious religious phrase literally every third sentence or more. They never talked like that before we converted, in fact, it almost never came up. Now though, it's perfectly acceptable to ridicule the gods we may celebrate and push their beliefs in our face. I do not and will not do that to them. From talking with other pagans, this seems to be pretty common. Can anyone offer any insight into this?
Why is it so terribly hard to get the same respect from others? Few know of what we follow, but of those that do, the ones who follow the Christian faith will.not.drop.it. I mean, suddenly every conversation has them praising God or throwing out some obvious religious phrase literally every third sentence or more. They never talked like that before we converted, in fact, it almost never came up. Now though, it's perfectly acceptable to ridicule the gods we may celebrate and push their beliefs in our face. I do not and will not do that to them. From talking with other pagans, this seems to be pretty common. Can anyone offer any insight into this?
Yeah, I don't even go there with people who don't get it. 
It would be really charitable of you to think about how your posts come across to others before you post them to the internet.
if they respect my religious choices or not. What I do care about is that when I say leave off with the conversion attempts, they respect THAT.
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". You're right to not get into discussions you don't want to have, just try to stay chilled and not get into anything and they will, eventually, get the message.
Not exactly respectful of other's religions. 
OTOH, non-Christians have dropped me because although I didn't push my beliefs, when they asked they didn't like my answers. So this kind of thing goes both ways.
Intersting analogy.
