Although Fromm didn't share the religious beliefs as the school, he said in his post he decided to enroll because Northwest Christian had a "solid communications program."
"Before I enrolled, I visited the campus to make sure that the chapel services were comfortable enough that I could fulfill the requirement," he said. "No one was speaking in tongues or handling snakes, so I decided to stay."
But Fromm didn't feel at peace.
"Every day I'm burdened by the fact that my peers might reject me because I'm different from them. I won't be rejected because of my race or social class, but simply because of the fact that I don't believe in God -- because I am an atheist," wrote Fromm in his post.
First,he deliberately went to a professing Christian school while being an atheist.
Then he lied about who and what he was for years.
He lied about what he was because he prejudged the people there; he upset that he might be judged for coming out of the atheist closet.
That's hypocritical, immature, and dishonest.
And by the way, who is he to expect or judge Christians for disassociating from someone who is a known and repeated liar and mocker? Scripture says that bad company corrupts good character. We are not to condone such things like atheism, lying, dishonesty. Aren't atheists the first ones to judge and complain about "hypocrisy" from Christians? That they don't live by what they claim?Yet they themselves are full of hypocrisy. They judge others for judging. To continually live a lie, is that not the epitome of hypocrisy? Claim to be one thing, but in reality is something totally different? And they dare complain about Christians? They don't want to be judged as being liars, dishonest, manipulators, users, etc. even though that's exactly what they are. If you don't want to be judged as such, then don't be such a thing.
By very nature, Scripture, which true biblical Christians hold to (obviously not many at that school who commented seem to), says that there is indeed a great divide between those who are in Christ and those who are outside of Christ. While there can be civility between the two, as this article inadvertently shows, there is and underlying hostility toward Christians by atheists (demanding they change their religion and practices and worldview, expectations, acceptance, disrespect the Holy Scriptures as mythical, and would rather them be silent). Hatred isn't an option for the biblical Christian, but hatred of Christ, Scripture, and biblical Christians is exactly what atheists are ultimately about. And before anyone argues the point, let Scripture speak:
Rom 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty,
boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient
to parents,
Rom 8:7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to
God, for it does not submit to
God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who
are in the flesh cannot please God.
Col 1:21 And you, who once
were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds
Indeed, to not love Christ and His Word is to hate them both. After all, Jesus is God and to say He
is not, is indeed to call Him a liar. That's not love, that's hatred. And if one hates Christ, he will
hate those who are IN Christ, who have the Holy Spirit in them, because by nature they are
enemies of God.
1Jn 2:15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the
love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust
of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
Joh 15:18 "If the world
hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.19 If you were
of the
world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the
world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.20 Remember
the word
that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they
persecuted me,
they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will
also keep yours.
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