How do christians view apostasy

[John V]

Understood but I did ask the question so I'm grateful that he answered it honestly.

I wasn't going to reply as the thread so quickly devolved into trash, but you're so polite I changed my mind.

I asked this question on another forum but there were not too many responses from christians so I thought I would repeat it here. I've referred to christians but only because that seems to be the majority of the theist population on this forum.

We have occassional stories of people leaving their religion and a particularly heartfelt account earlier today.

I was wondering whether reading these tales of indoctrination at an early age and then escape later in life if any christian members here relate to any of it?

No. We were nominally Christian when I grew up and sometimes went to church on Sunday, but that was it. No talk of religion at home. No other church activities. I certainly wasn't indoctrinated.

Do you ignore these people?

Yes. They all sound alike after awhile, as I'm sure Christian conversion accounts largely sound alike to many of the atheists here.

What would you do if your child, who you had brought up strictly christian eventually rejected your god?

“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories