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    Re: Contending with Interfaith Discussions.

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    We don't talk often. I've mourned the loss of who she was. I have not been able to celebrate the person that she is. Nor she the person I have become. But I will be there for the person she is going to become. And when she needs me, I will move the stars for her.
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    Re: Contending with Interfaith Discussions.

    Quote Originally Posted by MadZealot View Post
    Good advice.

    Also try and remember that your friend is a very "young" Christian, so she's going to be full of energy, zeal, and a measure of naivete as regards her new religion. In a sense she's going to be something of a theological sponge, uncritically soaking up whatever has an apparent 'Christian' veneer. Sure there's a danger of her picking up odd views; this is nothing different from the shiny, new "young" Pagans who can get caught up and swayed by oft-wacky 'Pagan' crap out there.
    In the end you will need to build up reserves of patience. Consider the need to engage your friend in religious Q&A sessions. These will help you BOTH understand her new path better.
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    Re: Contending with Interfaith Discussions.

    Quote Originally Posted by SatSekhem View Post
    How do you deal with friends who convert to Christiandom?

    My best friend recently converted to a southern Baptist amalgamation. It's not quite southern Baptist, and she deems it as merely "Christian", but it's close to it. Anyway, it's really begun to change her outlook on various things. While our politics used to line up more completely, nowadays... not so much. I try very hard to keep my lips closed and bite my tongue when I post politically/religiously motivated things upon my wall on FB and she comments. For the most part, her comments are not "better than you" motivated (if you know what I mean), but they have been coming closer and closer to this.

    I don't want to lose her as my best friend. She's... more like a sister to me. But, since I don't have family members where I have to contend with this issue, I'm not really sure how to deal with it in this case.
    Accept the fact that you may lose your friend, at least for a while. My wife is christian, but she had been christian for a long while before we met. What I am saying is nearly what others have said, it is about the conversion experience, had I met my wife when she was a young christian, she would most likely have tried to burn me at the stake. As it was she had gotten over that new shiny stage, and started to see that some of her churches teaching were just BS.

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