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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) Have you ever omitted (or even lied) about your true religious beliefs to make a social situation easier? [b]Yes. For a while in middle school I didn't really know which denomination my family was and mistakenly told people I was Catholic (we were Lutheran). In reality, I was agnostic.[/b]

2) Has anyone ever insisted that you believe in a certain god or religious figure? [b]I had a friend in high school who was very into her evangelical church and always trying to get other people to go with her to their teen services. They definitely had the goal of getting other kids to be Christian, but tried to pass it off like their teen service was just a party or a concert that [i]just happened to have[/i] Christian Rock performers and a pastor.[/b]

3) Has anyone ever made you go to a religious service? [b]My mom made us go for a while when I was little. But then she got tired of me and my siblings and my dad complaining about having to go, and she gave up.[/b]

4) Has anyone ever made you participate in a religious activity? [b]No.[/b]

5) Do you ever feel like an outsider because of your religious beliefs? [b]When I lived in heavily Christian areas in the deep south, sometimes yes. Up north, not very often.[/b][/quote]

1) Why do you lie about being agnostic? 
2) Did you go to her church? How did she insist you believe in God by extending an invitation to her church? Asking you to attend a church youth service is NOT insistence that you believe in God. Having a band at the service is forbidden? Why is that detail so ominous? If your friend said “come to my church friend, we will have a good time, etc,” she was not hiding the location of the event to lie to you. 
3) Your mom had a right to take you to church. 
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5)How did the people I’m the south make you feel like an outsider?[/quote]

Congratulations on being part of the problem.  :roll: [/quote]

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