So, I have this friend who decided to become "born again." To make a long story short, she decided to "turn her life over to Christ," as she puts it when she was laying in the hospital for like her 80th time (not an exxaguration, sadly) because of her annorexia. She dropped to 87 pounds, at a 5'7 height, and due to the severe damages she induced on her body, the doctors have given up on her. She told me that later a "missionary woman" came to the hospital, and after learning about my friend's situation, began praying for her. This woman asked my friend if she wanted to live... she said yes, naturally. Then the woman started telling her that she should "turn her life over to Christ." My friend was reluctant, being born Jewish, and although not being religious, she felt like she was betraying her Jewish background. Though she was aware that she could easily die soon, so she figured she had nothing to lose at that point, and her and this woman prayed for a while, while my friend accepted this new faith.

Eventually my friend recovered, and although me and her parents think that it was due to her medication and proper food intake taking effect, she swears that it was all due to "Jesus." It's been about three years since that incident, and my friend has drastically changed. She broke off her engagement with a wonderful guy because "he wasn't saved." She threw out all her jewelry, clothes, and other posessions worth a lot of money because she thought they were "demonically posessed." She started dressing like a sunday school teacher, and cut out all the people from her life who did not want to "convert," and the few "sinners" who she decided to keep as friends (me being one of them) was in hopes that she could "preach the gospel to us in order for our souls not to end up in hell." Sigh. I'm not bashing Christianity in any way - I just think she's taking this thing to a whole new level.

She went to some Christian college thousands of miles away from home even though this same college had a campus not far away from where she lives. She said it was because the students there were "ungodly." When she arrived at that college, she was very excited to tell me that although initially she had to share her dorm room with another student, after they got to know each other, that girl told her she decided to move to another room. Then, another semester she had a new roommate who also "surprisingly" decided to change rooms. When I asked her what she thought about this situation, she said "Jesus is awesome, by his will I will have a room all to myself." Basically, she does not see it for what it is - which is that even students in a Christian school find her fanatical worship to be too much, and move out after getting to know her.

It's starting to seem like she's in a cult or something, because she is not at all the person she used to be. She doesn't even watch TV or listen to the radio unless the program is strictly Christian. I love her as a friend, but it's hard to continue my friendship with her, when she is not the friend I once had. I can't have a regular conversation with her anymore, because the only topic she talks about - is Jesus. Whenever I call her, she always asks me if I've attended a church yet. I want to tell her I'm perfectly compfortable with the faith I've inherited from birth and do not want to convert to anything, but I know that by telling her that, I will become like one of her other friends who she casted aside when she figured out that she can't get them to agree with her faith. A part of me thinks I should just tell her this, and if she wants to end our friendship, then I guess it wasn't much of a friendship to begin with, and besides - she's not the person I became friends with initially.

The thing is, I'm reluctant to tell her how I feel about her new found faith, not only because I think she's taking it too far, but also because I know she will start praying for me non stop to become "saved." I know she does these things not meaning any harm, but the last time she's done that, I've had the longest bad streak in my life. It was so bad in fact, that I went to see a psychic my aunt has been going to for years, in order to find out why so many bad things started happening to me at once. I did not tell the psychic about what's been going on in my life when I went to see her - she straight out told me that someone is hexing me. She told me that it was my friend. She was accurate enough to tell me her name. I was surprised to hear that, because I know my friend being as religious as she is would never hex me... so then I figured, since she prays for people she wants saved non stop all day long, I think the energy she's sending out is so powerful that it affects people as any curse would.

I really don't know what to do about this. I think the reason why my friend is so involved with religion now is because she no longer has annorexia preoccupying her life (thankfully). So, psychologically she probably feels like she has to direct that obsession and preoccupation she once had with her body image towards something else - in this case religion. I don't want to lie to her and tell her that I'm going to church and praying daily just to feel accepted by her. I also don't want to tell her the truth because that will bring up the whole thing with her gathering all her bible study friends to pray for me to be saved (it's happened before). Being her friend for about 7 yrs, I know her well enough to say that she's a weak person, and that this religion thing is the only thing that keeps her going. She's starved herself before and has tried to commit suicide when she felt hopeless, so I know that by telling her that I think she's being rediculous with this whole worship thng will break her spirit, and I definately don't want to be the one to revert her to the times where she wanted to end her life. As long as this illusion she's surrounding herself with helps her, I guess it's better than being annorexic and suicidal. I'm trying to remain friends with her throughout all of this, but I don't want to pretend that I will go along with her radical worship and follow in her footsteps.

Is there any way to resolve this?