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If you tell your friends, and some of them walk away from you, then the only thing that made them a "friend" was the fact that you shared the same religion. Those are friends you can afford to lose, no problem. Sure, they'll tell you that you're going to hell, they'll cry for you, whatever, but you need to take care of you- and that includes getting over the zealots who cry and tell someone they're going to hell because they're no longer part of the same organized religion. Those are not friends- those are people who suckle to your personality because you share the same religion.
I know it sounds kind of harsh to be saying they aren't your friends... but if that's their reaction, then they simply are not your friends, and that's all there is to it. You will have become, simply, an enemy of their religion by not being a friend of it.
Just take care, and you'll find new friends who aren't so judgmental and flighty.
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