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Bill Duff

Sermon from the Hills

  • Today I would like to address the Homosexuality Issue or Gay Bashing movement by the Enlightened Christians of the World and others who have heard directly from their God that this is the right thing to do.  I would like to start off by stating that since I have been on this planet, I have received enlightenment, or smarts as they call it in the hills, by educating myself with books and talking to people who know something about the subject at hand.  I have spent an enormous amount of time praying and another enormous amount of time wondering why things are so bad on this planet.  I have quickly discovered that things are so bad because people are apathetic, as they definitely show a lack of interest to keep things on the up and up.  And therefore, I spent more time trying to understand what makes the world turn.

     What I discovered is this: Earth is a balance of yin/YANG!  What is a balance?   A state of equilibrium! Of What?  Of all that exists!  Whatever it is that is balancing must be measured.  I am either balancing positive with negative, or balancing left side with right side, thoughts with feelings, good with bad, etc.  I can't balance two things of different nature, so I can't balance good with oranges, thoughts with snow, negative with Plato, etc. (Well, I can, but people usually run away!) So we build a scale to measure the balance. The world as we know it is a polar realm where all things happen on a balanced scale of extremes.  For example, we have hot and cold.  The poles are extremely cold and the equator is hot.  In between those places we have degrees of each.  We have light and dark.  At night it gets dark, and when the sun comes up it gets light.  Did you know there are hundreds of shades of gray? We have sweet and sour, up and down, democrat and republican, beautiful and ugly, peace and war, and so on and so on.  If you are striving to do nothing wrong and you want to be as good as you can be, you are on the scale really close to the word good.  If you are selfish, greedy, don’t care about others, molest children, beat your wife, you are a bad person and you will find yourself next to the word bad. And in between these two words are a myriad of people who are less one than the other and as we get closer to the middle of the scale, we find the majority of people.  And I would describe those people in the middle as on the fence, the meridian, the vast majority, etc.  People who find themselves in the area usually try to move to the upper end of the scale to become good people.  They do all kinds of things including joining a church and following the rules of that particular church in order to become good people.  However, this often leads to idolatry, which actually knocks them back towards the bad side, but they don’t see it that way.

     Now let us look at another example: Male and Female.  On one end is female and the other is male.  If you have a person in the middle, they have half feminine DNA and half masculine DNA.  Every human being has part of each and it differs according to genetic structuring.  When a person is born, they have both feminine and masculine in their system, the degrees of which are totally random and fit in this polar scale I am talking about.  If a man is born who is 75% male and 25% female, you will not notice the feminine in him.  If a man is born 50% male and 50% female, you will see a human being who is balanced in both and probably works for a living and then comes home and takes care of the children.  If you see a man who has 25% male and 75% female, you may call him effeminate, gay, queer and dismiss him as a freak of nature, when in fact he is just a part of nature as any man on any part of this polar scale.  He may act like a woman in a man’s body or vice versa. But regardless of what he is, he is still a human being and deserving of respect.

    This is how this planet works. There are varying degrees of everything. The same works for the feminine.  Now, are there “normal” men who want to sleep with other “normal” men?  And vice versa? Are there men who want to sleep with little boys?  Of course there are and I am not defending this behavior.  But what you see on the surface is not always what is underneath.  And when you see a person that does not fit your vision of how perfect things should be, how do you know what is going on inside of them?

     Now, understanding that the world works on this principle, that there are various degrees of everything on this planet that exists between the two extremes, then not understanding this would make a person ignorant.  An ignorant person ruling the world would be a terrible thing to happen, right?  So, why in the world would people on this planet, in this day and age, find fault with others who are not in the same place on the scale as they are?  Why in the world do people think they are the only ones living, and that only people like them are the norm?  They are not the norm; the norm is the Whole scale which includes the entire world.  Good people and bad people exist on this planet, and the scale will always include them.  This world is POLAR, people, and you need to get it.  And by getting it, when you judge and condemn other people for just existing here, you are a hypocrite.

     Now, let’s look at how big a hypocrite you are.  Many people profess to follow a religion called Christianity, as they follow the teachings of a man called Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ said this: “Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”  Jesus said nothing about homosexuality and besides Christians, you have more to worry about than this.  Those of you who divorced your spouse are in deep doodoo.  And if you have spent you whole life attaining riches to buy material things and someone in your town went hungry, you are in deep doodoo.  If you said something about someone else that you heard from someone else, or said a nasty thing about another person and didn’t try to help that person, you are in deep doodoo. 

     So, take the pole out of your eye before you tell others what’s in theirs.  Read the Bible from a Love perspective rather than a condemnation perspective.  Read and educate yourself, then get out there and love your neighbor as Jesus taught.  Be a real Christian instead of finding fault with people.  Oh, and the word educate in the Bible which is used by Paul is “gnosis”, knowing, knowledge.  Begin your journey towards Jesus today and get rid of other people’s notions of what is right and wrong.  Begin by going to a website and learning something about the Bible you use to condemn others and pass judgement.  Here is that website:  http://www.soulforce.org/article/homosexuality-bible-gay-christian and there are others, just go to Google and type in, love and homosexuality, the Bible and how to remove my head from….Try to read this website from a standpoint of humility and not judgement, and you may find that gnosis isn’t really that far away!  Where are you on this worldly scale?

     May you all find what you are looking for!  And to those whose foundation is love, blessings to you!

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