my sister's attitude since becoming a christian

[bubblepop]

is really annoying me. she's 30 years old, single no kids, and has just found god and become a 'born again' christian. im very pleased that she has found something that makes her happy,and that she has made some new friends from the church. although im an athiest myself, i have never once made any negative comments about her new found beliefs and have been totally supportive when we have talked about it. however, the problem is her attitude towards me has become so 'holy er than thou' , she comes out with statements like; " well IF you get to heaven" and "god knows whats in your heart, you'l be going to hell" and so on. she does'nt preach to me or try to pursuade me to see her point of view, she just throws these cocky comments in to our conversations. i think what's bothering me is that it is beginning to become an obsession with her, i know that being a christian IS a way of life, but i have other friends who are part of the same church and they are nothing like this..is it unrealistic for me to expect to be close to her now that she is a christian and i am not?how do other christians feel about their non-christian friends/relatives?

just say sweetly "Judge not lest ye shall be judged"

its something like that isn't it

\link{http://www.afterabortion.info/sermon1.html\here you go .. give her this}

God is most displeased with you people of the earth!

You don't exist ner ner ne ner ner!!!

erm ... she sounds like a fruit loop to me, sorry. although maybe if I prey to god he'll cure my hayfever as well? lol!

perhaps wannabe, perhaps!

hmmm perhaps. and, do you think, if I preyed enough, he would restore my sight as well? then maybe, just maybe I'd start to believe, lol.

you just have to find some snide comments back. there are plenty of ways to irritate born-again christians. i come from a family of evangelical christians but am an atheist, but my insider background means i know how to push their buttons.

for example. on the issue of whether prayer has cured someone's hayfever. deflect it to why a caring god woudl actually prefer to cure hayfever than save someone from cancer. or save refugee children in Africa from death by starvation. is it cos all those African evangelical christians aren't praying hard enough but your sister prayed "better" about her hayfever? etc.

I agree with Pruni. It's a stage that will pass. The wonderfulness of it is just completely taking over her. She'll be the sister that you love and she'll have her deep faith. I don't think that she's involved in anything dodgy, particularly as you already know people from the church. It's new, it will settle and you'll benefit from the peace that it brings her too.

Fret not darling.

agree - it'll pass.

bubblepop, could it be that being condescending wasn't her intention, just overly exuberant?

god only knows. te he.