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I’ve seen plenty of posts about people who used to be Christian’s, but aren’t anymore. They firmly stand on the fact that they will never go back to Christianity, and that’s okay. However the only thing that bothers me is how we (us Christian’s) are responding to them. It’s the typical “ Jesus love

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