My Christian Thoughts - Issue #2 - The Subway Preacher

In today's My Christian Thoughts I'd like to talk about a video I saw last week.  The issue hits close to home, because I remember portraying the pastor or preacher in this video.  The debauchery that takes place really upsets me and it does so, because who are we to judge other people?  Who are we to tell other people what to do?  I understand teaching or sharing The Word, but I don't agree with forcing it down a person's throat.  In the end, we will be judged individually by a higher Being if this is what we choose to believe, and for those who don't - more power to you.

I lost countless of friends in high school and in college, because I was preaching to them - telling them they were going to hell, because they didn't belong to the true "Church of Christ".  Imagine me going up to a Catholic, a Baptist, a Presbyterian, a Methodist or a Mormon, telling them, "you, your mom, sister, brother and family are going to hell - all of you!  And if you don't change your religion soon, you will feel the fire deep in those pits!"

Yep, that was me.  Don't get me wrong, I believe in God - a loving and beautiful God who made me who I am.  Who is there beside me every day, and will be, until the day I die.  And this is what I choose to believe.  It's not your or anyone else's job to tell me it's not gonna happen.  My transformation took time, and I am so grateful to God that it happened, but that's another story - another issue of "My Christian Thoughts."

What is so remarkable about the video is the response the gay man receives after being chastised for over two minutes. 

[Excerpts from the video]
Instead of attempting to ignore a "preacher" spewing homophobic rants, a gay New York City subway rider decided to confront him.

On Saturday, a street preacher went on an anti-gay tirade on one of NYC's subway lines, according to New York Mag's Daily Intelligencer. The preacher yelled about society's poor influence on children, likened gay men to pedophiles and claimed "Michael Jackson died because he was gay" to a crowded subway car.

But one stranger wasn't having it.

"You teach hate," the man, wearing a khaki coat and a large fur hat, responded. "You are false. You are a false prophet. Do not listen to this man. He's scared. He's full of hatred."

The man continued to stand his ground and revealed that yes, he is gay, and yes, God still loves him. "I'm a man. And I'm a good man," he said. "And I'm a gay man and Jesus loves me! Jesus loves me!"

The gay man's eloquence moved his fellows riders so much that it was met by a rousing round of applause. 

All You Little Monsters Are Going To Hell - So Says This Real Teenage Monster

Honestly?  I don't even know where to start with this.  Where are the parents who raised this pathetic excuse for a child? Okay, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that.  I'm just sick and tired of 12 year old kids preaching to us, and everyone else for that matter, on how we are going to hell if we have sex, if we listen to Gaga, or if we're gay; Unless we're Bieber-believers, we're damned!

First, the little brat doesn't know anything about the story of Judas - she needs to go back to summer camp and read her Bible.  Second, the song is not a reflection of Gaga having sex with Jesus or Judas, it goes much deeper than that, like having to deal with a relationship she's currently in, and third, who is she to judge others on the merits of religion?
  
Plus....

The fake crying to make herself look like she's "ONE" with God, is beyond repentance.

I haven't blogged about the release of "Judas," because I really haven't had the time to analyze it, or better yet, give it a thorough cleansing.  I will probably ask Ryan to listen to the song, and give his take on it - since he's the bigger fan of the two.

Geez... the video below made my day ;-/