Re: Life after the LC

awareness · 07-24-2015, 07:35 AM

Aron,

Concerning Paul.

This story is abbreviated:

I had a customer that was awful. He was always angry and screaming at his secretaries like they were dirt. He was a lawyer. I worked for many of them, and so got use to this kind of behavior (lawyers? what else can't you expect?). But him I just couldn't take, so I told him I wouldn't work for him any more and walked out.

About a year later I saw him on TV, crying, and admitting that he was gay and had A.I.D.S. I thought, that explains a lot about him.

A few months go by and he called me and told me he had a new office and asked if I'd wire his office and network his computers. I agreed.

While I was working I noticed a plaque on his wall of a date when he received Jesus as his savior. I remarked about it and his face lit up and he told me Jesus changed his life, and how he was a different person now. When he wasn't around I asked one of his secretaries if it was true and she said "yes, he's a completely different person."

So when he walked by I asked him, "Dennis, since you've met Jesus does that mean you've given up your gay life style?" He said, "No. I go to a gay church. I go to the Metropolitan Church." Well I'm liberal but not that liberal and it blew my good ol' fundamentalist mind that I grew up with.

As would have it my next customer was at a home of a retired old Florida cracker Bible thumping preacher. So I ran this lawyer past him.

And he blew my mind. He said, "Back then Paul didn't know anything about homosexuality and what causes it. We now know there's natural causes for it. And if God causes it he surely can't judge it."

That was a day when I went home after work with my mind completely blown; born again gays? A Bible inerrantist claiming Paul was wrong? My universe shifted at least one degree ... prolly two.

07-24-2015, 07:35 AM	#6
awareness Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 8,064	Re: Life after the LC Aron, Concerning Paul. This story is abbreviated: I had a customer that was awful. He was always angry and screaming at his secretaries like they were dirt. He was a lawyer. I worked for many of them, and so got use to this kind of behavior (lawyers? what else can't you expect?). But him I just couldn't take, so I told him I wouldn't work for him any more and walked out. About a year later I saw him on TV, crying, and admitting that he was gay and had A.I.D.S. I thought, that explains a lot about him. A few months go by and he called me and told me he had a new office and asked if I'd wire his office and network his computers. I agreed. While I was working I noticed a plaque on his wall of a date when he received Jesus as his savior. I remarked about it and his face lit up and he told me Jesus changed his life, and how he was a different person now. When he wasn't around I asked one of his secretaries if it was true and she said "yes, he's a completely different person." So when he walked by I asked him, "Dennis, since you've met Jesus does that mean you've given up your gay life style?" He said, "No. I go to a gay church. I go to the Metropolitan Church." Well I'm liberal but not that liberal and it blew my good ol' fundamentalist mind that I grew up with. As would have it my next customer was at a home of a retired old Florida cracker Bible thumping preacher. So I ran this lawyer past him. And he blew my mind. He said, "Back then Paul didn't know anything about homosexuality and what causes it. We now know there's natural causes for it. And if God causes it he surely can't judge it." That was a day when I went home after work with my mind completely blown; born again gays? A Bible inerrantist claiming Paul was wrong? My universe shifted at least one degree ... prolly two. __________________ Cults: My brain will always be there for you. Thinking. So you don't have to. There's a serpent in every paradise.