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What are some critisms of Stoicism?

My friend is a Stoic, while I'm more of an Existentialist. We enjoy talking about philosophy over some breakfast. What are some good critisms I can bring up to him about Stoicism?
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One potential criticism of the idea of being "a Stoic" in the contemporary era is that many people adopt Stoic ethics without recognizing that classical Stoic ethics depended on a particular metaphysical view: namely that a perfectly good God/gods has/have ordered the world and its events to be as good as they could possibly have been. It's fundamental to Stoicism as originally conceived not just that we have to accept what we cannot change,  but that we literally *can't* change anything, and that this is nevertheless for the best. All of this can be hard to square with various other values or ideas the contemporary person might be committed to.