Q&A: My Extremely Religious “friend” Doesn’t Want to Accept Me?

Question by Lost and Found: My extremely religious “friend” doesn’t want to accept me?
Here is the basic story.

I came out to this chick and at that point, I knew that she was religious, but I didn’t realize just HOW religious. Anyways, I have a date with another guy coming up soon and I asked her to help me pick out a shirt that I could wear, since I have absolutely no fashion sense. She agreed and, today, I wanted to confirm if we were still gonna go…but she never texted me back. This afternoon though, I got a message that read:

“hey! i got your text. i’m not going to lie, every since you mentioned going shopping for a polo, i’ve felt kind of uneasy about the whole thing…. if i really believe that that lifestyle is outside of what God wants for us and that there are real consequences for it, i don’t think it would even make sense for me to encourage it if i cared about you.

and please understand, it doesn’t even have to do with you in particular…if one of my friends wanted to spend some weekend in Paris with a guy who she wasn’t married to and wanted me to shop for clothes before it, or if people wanted me to buy tons of alcohol to get drunk, i shouldn’t help them with that either…it makes no difference. and i hope people wouldn’t let me do things like that too.

i still don’t really understand how any of this (in your situation) is fair and it definitely makes me unhappy and sometimes pretty angry, but i really do believe that God’s ways are true and are bigger than we are meant to understand. anyway, you probably think i’m completely insane…i hope you know tho that it’s bc i want the best for you in a bigger sense and nothing else. p.s. sorry this is so long!!”

I know she thinks that she is trying to “help” me, but this actually really hurt…it cut deep. Especially since she is WELL aware that this is not a choice I made…its just who I am, so I don’t understand why she called it a “lifestyle.” I’m really pissed at her…should I confront her, ignore her, or talk it over with her? She is SO stubborn in her beliefs; I’ve already tried convincing her that there is a lot of unnecessary crap in the Bible, but she thinks that its God’s word. HELP

Best answer:

Answer by Launcelot Vigée-Lebrun
Tell her to kiss your backside and to get a life. Seriously we’re in 2010, no one should be That Religious. That’s like having no life besides the religion, that’s like having an addiction to religion and using it as a crutch. Just the same with smoking, drinking alcohol or doing drugs.

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