Burnishing Bigotry - 3rd edition

Lucy #505: You then state that, ―[Jesus] said this knowing that people ‗love darkness
rather than light‘ (John 3:19)‖
YES, this is also so very true; especially so of
those like you & yours who are choosing to arrogantly
champion judgment over mercy, and especially so of
those like you & yours who are hypocritically professing
damnation over grace! … As such, my dear, whenever
you are reading John 3:19 (or any similar verse) in the
future and thinking of the sins of others, it will be better
for you to look into a mirror instead!
Lucy #506: Next you profess that, ―This [the judgment of homosexuals as sinners, I assume]
is what we stand for, Scaughdt, and this will not change. We will not be conformed to society's
way of thinking. You are fighting a losing battle in that regard.‖
Fair enough, my Friend, though I will say that as a Follower of The Way of Christ, it is
impossible for me lose any battle – for the simple reason that I refuse to ever fight in one in the
first place! You see, I am not fighting against YOU, Lucy; I am merely attempting to awaken
the Goodness that already resides within your own Soul (see John14:20) – merely attempting to
get you to wake up; merely attempting to get you to abandon your callous, anti-Christian
judgments of others (see Matthew 7:1-2); merely attempting to get you to repent & return to living
a life in harmony with the teachings of your own Lord & Savior (see John 3:8) … If you refuse to
do so – if you are determined to continue to place the laws of the Old Testament on a pedestal
above the ministry of Jesus Christ (who so clearly amended those same laws, and who so clearly
would having nothing at all to do with their more bigoted expressions today), well then I cannot do
anything about that … And yet if you do continue to do so, it will not be me who will be
―losing‖, Lucy. No, my dear Friend, it will be the homosexuals damaged by your bigotry, it will
be your fellow Christians for being further cast in a most unflattering light, and it will be you &
yours for abandoning any hope you might have of entering Jesus‘ Kingdom in this lifetime (see
Matthew 18:3-4 & John 13:15-17 & Luke 17:20-21) who will lose indeed!
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