Dear Editor,
I absolutely understand every inch of your story [Finding God, drunk in the rain], and it could never be truer than right now. There is a huge gap between conservative and liberal Christians, and what seems to be the problem is that they do not understand each other at all.
Being a liberal myself and having a brother who is a conservative (and a theology major at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University), I have had this all of my life. When I try to tell him that Christians are judging, he tells me that they are only enforcing what God has already judged to be evil. When I tell him that they are unloving, then he tells me that Jesus had righteous anger (anger towards something sinful). What we need to realize is that Jesus loved the person, not the sin. Jesus calls us only to obey these thousands of rules as an act of love towards God not as a requirement of salvation. Let’s just realize that some of us choose to love God in different ways than others.
Liberals love God by loving others; conservatives love God by hating sin (even to the extreme). Both are baking the same cake, in different ovens.
Jessica Pruitt

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