ultimaterock- if you would have been brought up religious, and are asking whether to become friends with people who are not religious I would not advise it. Since this is not the case, why drop friends that did nothing wrong to you? You’re the one who changed. If they want to drop you, that’s their choice. You didn’t join some crazy cult that makes you leave everything behind. You just have obligations, and if your friends are respectful of that than you can go right on being friends. You may find that you have less in common, and it is likely that you’ll end up drifting apart because of that, but I don’t see the need to deliberately end it. Your friends are not reshaim if they were never raised with religion, and therefore if you can go right on doing mitzvos it’s not a problem.
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