#shes also alluded to this churchs interpretation of scripture as not lgbt friendly

[neofelis----nebulosa]

KInda having some issues with something my friend said last night and i want to move past it but cant stop thinking about it

#so basically my friend who ive had since freshman year of hs said something on the phone that really doesnt sit right with me #shes gotten into christianity and she didnt grow up christian but she met some christian friends who have kind of gotten her into it #and she talks about it a lot #i dont know much about the actual church itself but it seems to me like theyre sort of pressuring her into it and dare i say... #...indoctrinating her #like i dont get it she was never particularly religious but now shes getting all serious about this stuff and how she doesnt want to go... #...to hell and wants to get baptized and all that stuff #shes also alluded to this churchs interpretation of scripture as not lgbt friendly #from what shes said it very much gives love the sinner hate the sin vibes #and the issue at hand here is that they believe that conversion is possible and necessary in order to live a life free of sin or something #at least this is what i get from what shes told me #and she was telling me about how people get baptized and say they arent gay anymore and i just said i dont believe that for a second #and she said well its true #and i told her that i believe these people SAY that they arent gay but theres no way they were actually converted its not possible #and explained basically that people can lie about their sexuality and often do out of pressure to perform heterosexuality #but tbh i was kinda thrown off so i dont think i was particularly well spoken in explaining and the examples i gave from my own life didnt. #...really illustrate what i was trying to say and i didnt do a great job of making that connection between my examples and the point i was. #...trying to prove #tbh i didnt think much of it at the time i just kind of moved on but today i cant stop thinking about it #its so frustrating to me how she just takes things at face value and doesnt think to look below the surface #ive been waiting for this whole christianity thing to run its course with her and at one point it seemed like she was done with it but... #...shes gone right back #and now shes telling my about considering becoming baptized and stuff #and how her parents dont approve and all that stuff #and im just like i feel like shes being lost to conservative christian ideology #even though she doesnt seem to recognize it as such #but like idk what to even say or how to confront her #she doesnt even know my sexuality and i dont want to out myself in explaining why these things from the church are harmful to me as her... #...friend #she knows im not straight i came out to her as asexual back in high school