i-amneveralone:

I will be frankly honest and say that sometimes when I encounter hostile atheists on this site, I feel like cussing someone out. I know, I know. Not very Christian of me. But then I remember my gay freshman roommate who wanted to know about  why I believe in what I believe it and genuinely wanted to start reading the Bible. I remember one of my classmates who I got close to and his questions about how can I reconcile science with my faith and how he asked it in a non condescending fashion. He is the same friend who greatly appreciated that I said I would pray for him when he decided to take a leave of absence from school.  I think of my bisexual roommate junior year who consistently told me to have a great time at church on Sundays and asked about how it was every time I came back. Not everyone who doesn’t believe in God is the hostile teacher we see in God’s Not Dead. A lot of people don’t like to give you a hard time for believing in God and find it pretty cool that you have something that you believe in. That is why I try not to harden my heart and get all my pride puffed up when I encounter someone who is hostile towards God. It is not my place to get personally angry as if they are insulting me. All the people I mentioned are creations of God and He is working in all their hearts, whether they know or not. My job is simply to love them, tell them the Truth, and if they don’t want to hear it, to pray for them and keep going my way.