Various other corrections:
1. People are not won over to Christ by divorcing and breakups... that is basic understanding of charity...
2. God controls salvation, it is not something that needs to be forced to such an extent that people should do what is plainly wrong to "win them over". That is cult mentality, not Christian mentality.
3. Something like 80% of the population claim to be Christian. For some people they think it is more like less then 1%. Others much higher. I, personally, tend to take people at their word and know that a lot of these more liberal Christians show more love and do more effect just naturally then many of those who teach a Pharisee "Jesus".
I can't say how many wounded hearts I have had to deal with because they were given the wrong idea about God entirely. It is sickening.
It also is a factory for these people that say: Well, Jesus I don't like because he is all about rules and condemnation. Not that they have an excuse for believing some foolish, modern day Pharisees... after all are the gospels so long or difficult to read that they can not simply pick them up and see for themselves that these people are lying?
4. There is zero scriptural basis for breaking off relationships because someone is not a Christian.
This is like someone wearing a mask of you and going in, robbing a bank. You suddenly find yourself wanted for a crime you did not commit.
In fact, not only is there not scriptural basis, did God do this with Israel? No. Israel went and did all sorts of bad things - metaphorically, just as the Church does today - and God sought to bring her back.
5. Did Jesus do this? No. Jesus accepted sinners. He did not go around beating people over the head with a Bible. He spoke the message. Those who believed he pointed out God had given it to them to believe.
She is cutting off the message to him, not the other way around.
Forced conversion? That is what Pharisees did, not Jesus.
They don't trust or believe in God who is omnipotent and omnipresent.
Sadly, this is the way the world is today: no wonder it is said in Isaiah Jesus is "marred beyond any other man, beyond all human appearance".
They have utterly distorted who Jesus is.
These things said, people don't have any excuse to blame all Christians (80% of America claims to be) because of what some do who clearly are not doing what is right.
And lastly, someone saying to an unbeliever, an atheist, "well, you are dumb, because you are an atheist" - effectively - how on earth does that help win people? Personal attacks? Who thinks they have some right to boast of their salvation that they might look down their noses at those who do not have it?
And if anyone thinks salvation is something which has to be earned by works, they are sadly mistaken. Salvation is by grace. It is in the Spirit. Works come naturally from those who have the Spirit. It is those who do not have the Spirit (but think they do) or who are spiritually immature to be acting in such ways.
