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I have absolutely nothing I want to tell you about Jesus. You don't want me telling you how to live your life when I have my own shit to deal with anyway. What kind of Christian am I? I'm an theistic-evolutionist, no longer believe in the trinity, and believe that we do not go to heaven when we die. :o)  

If you are considering an encounter with the divine, great. I'm not going to ambush you into thinking a certain way just to gain a conversion out of you. You're on your own path. My dear Christian: Be a friend, genuinely! It's fine to ask a friend, "so where are you spiritually?"  If your friend is an agnostic, atheist, buddhist, hindu, muslim, jainist, bahai, mormon, JW, catholic, jedi, or whatever—sorry scientologists—be at least of all a good friend and listen. Have coffee with them, decaf if mormon :o).  This is perhaps the best thing you could ever do to "be Jesus" to someone.  Exhaust grace and mercy long before resorting to condemnation. Exhaust your capacity to love before abandoning hope. 

If you're an atheist, fine. I see how to get there, I really do---really, really do. I think Christians need more atheist friends so they can see that people are atheists for a variety of reasons. Some people say atheist when they mean agnostic, but the label has a sort of finality attached to it that says, "I'm really not interested." I'm a closet atheist somedays, but mostly a heretical Christian.  Firstly, and let's just cut through the shit, there is no empirical evidence that proves either the resurrection, Jesus, or God.  Oh shit, he just let our big secret out of the bag! Sorry.  Like Bultmann argued, you can only come to a Jesus of history through believing. So, I'll be your friend. You know my world view, but I do enjoy talking about it with you. 

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