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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand this. I'm Christian and would kill to have some Christian friends - and simply to be around people who don't bash me for living my life in a certain manner.

The US isn't as religious as you think.[/quote]

Where do you live? Location seems to be a big factor.

And maybe perhaps the denomination. Regional differences there as well.

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Good point. I live in the south, but [b]I'm Episcopalian[/b] - although too young and conservative for them. Too educated for the local Baptists, so I usually run into the college-educated atheists who can't understand why I'm faithful to my husband and [b]don't drink much[/b]. Believe it or not, it's seriously isolating.[/quote]

Hmmm. ;) [/quote]

I'm former Methodist, and hung around with evangelicals in college. Plus I truly believe being drunk is a sin. All those things added together...I just don't drink a lot. I certainly don't party or do the bar scene.

And yeah - I get bullied about it. Called names. It's my greatest fear from college (you aren't cool if you aren't drunk) except I'm in my mid-thirties now...[/quote]
Take heart in 1 Peter 4:1-5: "Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is ready lto judge the living and the dead."

Do you not have a good church to go to? When I became a Christian and started attending church regularly, I made a lot of good Christian friends who have been really helpful to me to live the life I want to live.[/quote]

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