RE: What to do?
June 28, 2009 at 9:42 am
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2009 at 9:43 am by meowmeow.)
I don’t know if this will help but it’s the story of a friend of mine.
In my country there aren’t a lot of religious groups, people are mostly un-practicing Christians go to church twice a year because of the tradition… but this fiend was born in a fundamental Christian family with a lot of other issues and when he started to doubt his faith at 18 they threw him out! He had to work to pay himself for his studies… he rejected all of his beliefs, went through a difficult period of not knowing what to think of anything and years of therapy. But all ended well, he’s now one of the most sensible characters I know, he married a friend of mine and I’m the atheist godmother of their first child!
When he was a Christian he had a group of friends I called “trendy Christians” because they went to college, wore trendy clothes, were sometimes funny… But how can you be friends with someone who believes he is “saved” and without a doubt “on the right path” (they were really pretty fundamental) and that these facts justify all of their actions? They were always in the winning team! (just for an example a trendy Christian girl-fiend of his told, at a party, to his future wife (who had just met him for the first time then) that he was gay and that she should forget about him, out of pure spite and jealousy…).
These people are not able to respect you when you disagree with them! Stay away for them!
Behave like you don’t do to others what you don’t want done to yourself and this will be the kind of people you’ll meet and befriend!
Ok that was cheesy but the sun is shinning over here…
In my country there aren’t a lot of religious groups, people are mostly un-practicing Christians go to church twice a year because of the tradition… but this fiend was born in a fundamental Christian family with a lot of other issues and when he started to doubt his faith at 18 they threw him out! He had to work to pay himself for his studies… he rejected all of his beliefs, went through a difficult period of not knowing what to think of anything and years of therapy. But all ended well, he’s now one of the most sensible characters I know, he married a friend of mine and I’m the atheist godmother of their first child!
When he was a Christian he had a group of friends I called “trendy Christians” because they went to college, wore trendy clothes, were sometimes funny… But how can you be friends with someone who believes he is “saved” and without a doubt “on the right path” (they were really pretty fundamental) and that these facts justify all of their actions? They were always in the winning team! (just for an example a trendy Christian girl-fiend of his told, at a party, to his future wife (who had just met him for the first time then) that he was gay and that she should forget about him, out of pure spite and jealousy…).
These people are not able to respect you when you disagree with them! Stay away for them!
Behave like you don’t do to others what you don’t want done to yourself and this will be the kind of people you’ll meet and befriend!
Ok that was cheesy but the sun is shinning over here…
