Herb Montgomery: What If Proximity To People Who Are Different Than Us Can Change Everything?

[@RandyAndy7373]

Great!🎉 I am RC and also deconstructed quite a bit. You cant just gloss over the failures of my Church and stick to old believes, that we got it all right and that all men who leave the RC Church or know of it and dont join, will suffer ECT. How Jesus does that sound to all Protestants? All the absurd violence, the forgeries (like the Constantinian donation), the weird dogmas (Unfallability of the Pope, the Immaculate Conception of Mary, etc.), all the fearmongering, the limbus, the waste of miney have to be rejected. I would expect the same from Protestants when talking about their Luther, an antisemitic man, who rejoiced in the burning of witches (mainly poor ill women) and the brutal killing of peasants. Great guy. I am sure😢 I one day stopped believing in all of these cherry pickers, these bigots on both sides. They missuse the bible. Suddenly you dont hear much of Mt 7,22; Mt 25 and MK 10,25. Of course. We rather keep the money within the family. I admit. I was that way too. Trans: No way. SSA: no way. Huge cars: of course. Wars: of course. It's a pattern: What the Churches dont like and if they arent affected by the issue it is condemned mercilessly. Yet if it serves their purpose, they are surprisingly a lot more generous. They will find any justification in the bible and determine what is an allegory and what has to be taken literally, funnily always according to their own preferences. The two of you have shown hearts and guts! I am not there yet and probably will never make it with my primary coining as a Conservative RC. I know Jesus is with you. The real victims and the suffering depend on guys like you! Stay on track.❤

[@WhatIfProjectPodcast]

Such good perspective, thanks for sharing Randy! ✌🏻&❤️

[@RandyAndy7373]

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast thx💖

[@HeyItsTim]

Speaking on the "mis-understanding" of the characteristics of the LGBTQ community, and being over sexual or something like that. We have a Pride parade here, that is so XX rated. Theres naked men running down the street with rainbow capes. So it's a little disturbing. I know it's not right to stereo type people, but it is a little hard to take. If a straight man did that, it would be wrong.

[@WhatIfProjectPodcast]

I can understand the difficulty of understanding, which is why I find it best to ask questions - ask a friend from the LGBTQ community to explain why some Pride parades are like that and why it’s acceptable from a gay person, but not for a straight person - you might be surprised at the perspective they give you if you set out to learn from them and withhold judgement.

[@HeyItsTim]

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast agreed. Thanks for that perspective.