Christian best friend asks me to reconsider

[Thumpalumpacus]

"Thanks but no thanks" should do the trick.

[vorlon13]

I was confronted by fellow church members, brought up to front of the church, and then informed that I needed the demon of homosexuality removed from me.

I honestly cannot remember how I handled the situation.  

During certain stressful situations, I tend to have memory blocks.

All I know for certain is that I realized that in point in time that religion was bullshit.

Jesus fucking Christ !

[Silver]

I was confronted by fellow church members, brought up to front of the church, and then informed that I needed the demon of homosexuality removed from me.

I honestly cannot remember how I handled the situation.  

During certain stressful situations, I tend to have memory blocks.

All I know for certain is that I realized that in point in time that religion was bullshit.

Jesus fucking Christ !

I remember it being a scary situation for me, but I have this tendency of blocking bad situations from my memory. It is why I can remember what lead to the situation, but not precisely what happened during the situation.

[brewer]

If she is schizophrenic then buying into (even falsely) or propping up/excusing/reinforcing any delusion belief is not going to help her. 

If it were me I'd go back to the "agree to disagree" position, the same as I would with a non schizophrenic theist. As others indicate, be honest with her.

[Alex K]

I've been asked to "reconsider" my atheism several times (always by Americans, I don't know anyone else who would say that), and I always found it quite insulting. It's such a lazy line. I'd explain heaps of reasons and evidence and so on, and in the end you can just see that the other person either has no clue what you are talking about or doesn't want to think about it. Yeah whatever, that's all nice, but can't you just reconsider so I can check this "saved" box here and switch my brain back off?

[Anon2381]

I was confronted by fellow church members, brought up to front of the church, and then informed that I needed the demon of homosexuality removed from me.

I honestly cannot remember how I handled the situation.  

During certain stressful situations, I tend to have memory blocks.

All I know for certain is that I realized that point in time that religion was bullshit.

Thats insane, but common. A homosexual man was recently given a chocolate cake of which the flour was prayed over to exercize the homosexual out of this man. They believed it worked. I think the guy ran out of there and was like "Thanx for the cake you fuckin Physcos!" 
I have also blocked out a lot of my childhood memories. It still shocks me when I remember details of the crazy I experienced in my church. 
It pisses me off that christians believe they are helping when casting out the homosexual desire. Im glad you were confident enough to realize the bullshit.

[vorlon13]

I feel severely constrained in offering advice in this situation.

Proselytization by a proselyte presupposes the proselyte is sincere in their belief, offering a course of action beyond the scope or in defiance of the referenced Scriptures would be disrespectful of their beliefs.


Tough situation, my sympathies for the predicament you both find yourselves.

[Anon2381]

I've been asked to "reconsider" my atheism several times  (always by Americans, I don't know anyone else who would say that), and I always found it quite insulting. It's such a lazy line. I'd explain heaps of reasons and evidence and so on, and in the end you can just see that the other person either has no clue what you are talking about or doesn't want to think about it. Yeah whatever, that's all nice, but can't you just reconsider so I can check this "saved" box here and switch my brain back off?

lol so true and irritating

[Minimalist]

"Thanks but no thanks" should do the trick.

Failing that....try "Go Blow Jesus Out Your Ass."

[vorlon13]

Interesting to contemplate that the more a potential convert might start to believe, the less credible the witness trying to cultivate that belief becomes.