(May 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm)JohnDG Wrote: Im really just trying to pull my aunt and friend's out of it with no success so far.
Perhaps you should try to see to what they are bound most.
If they put "church" before everything, then most surely you will never succeed anything. If they put "God" before "church" (which implies, they make a difference between the two), they study the bible at home and would put their own views before the church's views, then they may be more susceptible to leaving the church than leaving God. Otherwise, if they are superficial regarding religion and God (which does not seem, from what you said), then I believe they may turn atheist.
P.S. I've heard the saying "the world comes in the church", which actually means to them "the people in the church turn in the way the people of outside are". Though what you said seems to be different than this. As about "gay christian", that sounds paradoxical to me (I guess everybody understands why). The same absurd seems to me for a gay to ask a religious wedding with another gay.
