Do you know how being different can be a blessing?

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Do you know how in Orthodox Christianity it can be a blessing?If you had no fault and people hate you,discriminate you,treat you like crap,get strip of your human rights,can be a blessing and even become a Saint if you are close to Church and by being humble.So leave all this crap about all that,yeah it's not right,the discrimination and all that,but see what you can gain,see the real meaning in life.Never get depressed for reasons like that.See the light.

I would hope you're not telling that to an atheist.

I said humbled.Not egotistic, proud, selfish.But of course what people know about this BIG VIRTUE?

I'm just saying. You think it's okay that injustice exists because I'm one day going to become a saint? First of all, I don't even know what a saint is, and secondly, as a human being, I believe that it is my job to make the world a better place in any way I possibly can. Just letting it go and "seeing the light" helps nothing.

It's not the Christ agrees with injustice,but since free will exists and God let humans in their free will,evil will exist,if they make bad use of it.Even though God does things for punishment in the world,since the people wanted it,after some time.Because He knows the good people will gain.
So if people are not just to you,you can see it as a blessing,as with that you can make your self stronger on will and love to God like Job.Also we must think the eternal life,not this. so much.Second i remember a Bible passage that says something when someone is being a slave.But you must be baptized an Orthodox Christian.

Shouldn't this be posted in PPR?

I agree with a part of your answer and your way of thinking.

I enjoy being different and I don't hide any of my differences from the world. I'm also a proud Right Wing Christian as well.

A heretic.

You are either free, or you aren't, it is not possible to have free will and have a destiny ordained by an omnipotent god. They are mutually exclusive. The biblical god and the bible claims to know who will be saved and who will not be saved. When ‘god’ of the bible created the universe, he made a book (not really a book as such, though it is called such in the bible, more a list) on it are the people destined to live in paradise (heaven) and those who are destined to die, (a second time, and to burn for all eternity).
and all that dwell on the earth shall do it homage, [every one] whose name had not been written from [the] founding of [the] world in the book of life of the slain Lamb.”
Revelation 13:8.
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is [that] of life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books according to their works.
And the sea gave up the dead which [were] in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which [were] in them; and they were judged each according to their works:
And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire.
And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:11-15

Everyone who has ever lived and died is on either of the two lists. We are predestined to suffer an either or fate. This you have to agree means that we have not free will, for we have been chosen by god at the time of creation to suffer our fate. Nothing we can do will change that, it is our fate.
(Edit from what I can tell from several Biblical Commentaries, you can in fact get yourself removed from the book of the saved, but not, by the looks of it, be added)