I thought you were Christian

If you may recall, I posted an entry about saying "hey Christian, chill!". I've recently had a similar experience. Twice within the last two days.

Firstly, I was with a non-Christian friend and we were talking about prom and dates. So we were talking about someone we know who said no to a guy, and my friend's answer to that was, "well, I can see that happening. She's so Christian". I was pretty surprised by that comment because I was just like "welll....." because I know she didn't really mean any harm to that comment, but that implication made me feel pretty weird. I've been thinking about it, and I don't know if she meant that because she was Christian and he was non-Christian, she would automatically say no, but my impression was that being a super-Christian meant that you don't date.

So today, I had a spare so I was leaving to go out but everyone else had an assembly. So I guess technically I was skipping, fine. I was by my locker and people from classes were starting to come out, and these people passed by me and they were all like, "yo, skipper!!" and i was just like "yeah yeah..". Then this one guy passed by and he was like "I thought you were Christian!" I was with a Christian friend at that time, and I was a little more subtle about it, but her jaw dropped.

To some all that up: dang, EVERY little thing can be turned into something to do with Christian identity. Both times, I had no idea what to say. I started saying something along the lines of "well...that doesn't really matter" but then maybe it does. I'm not quite sure. There's so many different ways people view Christians, and it really throws me off when someone says something like that. I usually think of those kinds of comments being relative to things on a bigger scale like committing crimes, but this time it really made me realize that people do watch our every little move. I feel like I should've been standing up for my faith, but I wasn't sure if my answer would've been hypocritical or give them the wrong impression- or just be flat out wrong. So now, I've kind of compiled a mental list of what to say in these kinds of situations because this is a reality. The only thing is that that mental list is still empty.

Sabrina