C, if you're still here.
I know that you're on an island right now, and if you really get into it, you think that people will think you're crazy. Hence your choice of forum.
The details don't matter anyways.
It's called the cost of Discipleship. We are called to be partakers in Christs suffering. When people give their lives to Jesus Christ in faith, many times these days it's under the banner of a promised health, wealth, and happiness. This isn't what the Bible teaches. When that person then runs head first into the promised persecution, it can be a shock to the system. Even the Apostle Paul says that you will say "what is this strange thing that's happening?". That's how bad it can get. I try to inform people about it all the time, this promised persecution. It's not something that is taught in todays "modern" churches.
Listen. These people who are bothering you, they don't even need to know that you are a Christian. It's not you that they hate, it's Jesus who is inside of you that they hate. Jesus even said that the world will hate us because it hated Him first. That's just a different way of saying it. All these people know is that there is something about you that rubs them the wrong way. That's the light. They want to put it out. The world suppresses the truth, and you represent what they want to suppress. They will go to great extremes to hide from that light, and that usually comes at our expense. It can cost us our money, our reputations, and even our lives. It's really the basis for all persecution of Christians since the beginning. They will take any dirt that they can find, anything small thing and exaggerate it, or just make things up to justify the hatred that they feel inside towards you. Many times they will even convince themselves that they are saving the world, or the country, or the neighborhood, when they bother you. People who you have never met will seem to take great joy in seeing you suffer. It's cold, but it's reality.
And in all this we are called to be blameless. This is the hardest part. I've failed, and have seen others fail. But if you want the results that God is seeking, you must remain blameless as best as you can .
In Proverbs, it says that being kind to a person who is being evil towards us is like pouring hot coals on their head. The reason is obvious. If you give them nothing to point at to justify themselves, their actions, their hatred, then they have to look at themselves. That's the number one thing that they want to suppress. They don't want to see themselves as they are. The idea is that if they have to look at themselves enough, they will eventually get tired of seeing who they really are, and will want to change. It's like an alcoholic bottoming out. The world needs to bottom out in their lies before they will want the truth. Some go down fighting, though. It can get ugly. But that's why we do it.
You're not the first, and you won't be the last. The more Biblical you are, the more alone you're going to feel in this world, and the more that you are isolating yourself. Like I said in the beginning, an island.
There is a book that has been out for a while called "Jesus Freaks". I avoided it for a long time because it sounded like most of the new age garbage. When I finally checked it out, it was just a modern day version of 'Fox's book of Martyrs'. It's basically the same principle as the blues. It consoles you. It's like having a friend who went through the exact same thing. You don't need to explain, he gets it. There's a comfort in that. You might want to check it out.
You also might want to check out "Cost Of Discipleship" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I just listened to it again on audio from the library. If you haven't read it, or listed to it, you may want to check it out.
Jesus said this recorded in Luke 14:27.
And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
Hang in there. There's nothing that you're going through that God Himself did not ordain. There's a purpose in it. He's in control and always has been.
Dave