Please pray for my loved friends to renounce their wiccanism and return to the true way, and for me to resist the temptations of lust that are around me, and to be strong enough to pass my exams

So

I require a piece of advice

a friend of mine, who's in quite an enmity towards religion and who is currently resorting to it, has her parents split up, they are both quite toxic, inasmuch as I understood her story. She's asked me to advice her how to approach her parents and if/how to respect them, given that they are both "assholes to her"

mom sort of kicked her out of the house and the father came back in her life after some sixteen years

and he seems untrustworthy

how should I advice her?

no reason apparently, just her having little next to no attachment to her?

that's the message I picked up all these years talking to the girl

she remarried, and the og dad came back, as mentioned earlier

vicious circle, really

she's 20 already, on her own house, I forgot to add that

her parents are the * I am my own god * sort and she herself is prone to pagan practices, and whereas she's fine living by herself, she wants to friend her mom back at least. You figure it poisons a child to not be able to talk properly with her own parents

it's been a few years in which she couldn't do much, God knows why. It's overwhelming to try to advice anything on my part

yeah, I am trying to guide her towards Christ this way

I can't accept it myself that there's the possibility of the ties being impossible to be mended back

hedonism, touché

is this the way you acted?

since you mentioned you had a similar experience

I see

I thought of it as well, though I found it pretty cold of a way

guess it's the best one, nonetheless

it's all so difficult

she's a conviced lgbt member

you figure the fight here

bringing a hedonistic and comfortable modern man to the rigors and spiritual strictness of eastern orthodoxy will be quite the battle 😂

I do know that

yeah

but -- figure this --

she's from germany, and has no possibility of coming in touch with church members

and she's pretty much surrounded with lgbt

anyone knows germany's in a bad relationship with the church

ayy, my people are everywhere

funny how westerners tend to accuse eastern europe of overreligiosity and poverty, and yet the west is leading in depression, godlessness and overall unhappiness

nobody held that

overall mentality's different

this ^

I have a question regarding the quran

When was the surah ar-rum, "the byzantines have been defeated", written?