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...or if you were a Christian for many years, and then, begin to question, and ultimately become agnostic or atheist, they will say you were not a true Christian in the first place. I definitely believed, and now I definitely don't. Period.
...or if you are kind, but don't shove your belief system down other people's throats, so they don't know what you believe. I've had people see me notice people needs, and do kind things, and say, "Are you a Christian?" They are surprised when I say no. I tell them, there are kind people everywhere, and kind and decent doesn't automatically equal Christian. It rattles them a bit.
both things happen, they don't want to hear about Christians who do heinous things, and they don't want to hear about non-Christians doing decent, kind things. Either thing doesn't fit the paradigm.
Yeah, that's like when I was at a doctor office with a few of my kids and a lady asked me about them as they are obviously adopted. So I was telling her about how we adopted through fostering and how all of them had some pretty intense special needs some of which she could observe. Her comment to me as I walked away was "what a Christian thing to do." Really? Only Christians adopt special needs kids? That's odd since there was no one on any waiting list who wanted to adopt ANY of my special needs babies when I was fostering.