Hello there! I have a question concerning some recent activities. First some background.

I was baptized Catholic, received First Reconciliation, First Communion, and was confirmed into the Church. For reasons in this day I can hardly explain, when I was fourteen I broke away from the Church. Not only did I break away from the Church, but I also broke away from God. Yes, I became an atheist and this persisted for about 3 years until I felt spiritually pulled, but was still in anger with Christianity entire, so I got into Buddhism for about another year, and then pulled away from that when I tried meditation and even succeeded! That is, I remember once deep in meditation for some unexplainable reason I burst out of trance and began laughing hysterically for about five minutes without stopping, or being able to stop.

Regardless of what seemed to be "meditative success," I still did not feel spiritual truth. So I went about afterward being a believer in God but still not a Christian. I made many friends and read much literature; my intelligence, knowledge, and philosophical wariness grew exponentially during this period.

Then one day I began having revelations. I began feeling intensely Christian in leaning albeit I couldn't believe it. I did not even initiate this myself! It was as if a supernatural force was taking seizure of my soul and directing me to the right path and all of a sudden faith hit me like a baseball to the nose. I began believing, even to a radical level. I began reading the Bible from start to finish (I have always been familiar extensively with Biblical stories as I was attending Catholic education from age 4 to 18, but never actually went through it all).

Since then I have had a radical shift in my entire life, feeling immensely terrible for what I once thought was not at all a big deal (masturbation), and started revering the Ten Commandments to a level I hope soon to achieve as absolutely orthodox and unyielding.

I am soon to return to the Catholic Church, and as such have been professing defenses of it. Since then, certain friends have stopped calling me. I have been vigorously assaulted for my faith, even so far that one friend even told me "please don't be a Christian, you're too intelligent for that" proceeding to claim that Christianity is "a corrupt hybrid of Irish Druidism and Egyptian religion." Basically a lot of new age "intellectual" garbage, which I quickly refuted.

Point is, radical shifts are occurring and friends seem to be drifting. Some have even tried to force me to believe I am homosexual, while I currently have a girlfriend, have always been straight, and strongly anti-gay marriage! They are probably homosexual themselves hoping I will be. But it sounds to me like demons are desperate to find any way to make me defy God now. It seems I am under severe attack, as people mock me (mostly atheists/satanists). I do not care. I am not here to be liked. Only to love God. What is your opinion on this? Please help!