"Coming out" to friends and family (piefed.social)

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Have you come out about your faith to your friends or family? If so, how did it go? Do you plan to come out or to keep it secret, if you have not yet come out about it?

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[-] Semester3383@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It was a long argument about symbolism, and why Satan was the symbol that was used. My mom in particular had a hard time wrapping her head around the idea that god was actually the asshole of the bible, and that Satan acted in a largely humanist way. She also had a hard time accepting that Satan was purely symbolic, because she sees an adversarial figure as real.

[-] thatheathenguy@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

It sounds difficult to explain to conservative Christians the fact that other interpretations and perspectives exist. I can only imagine what that argument and others similar must be like.

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