I am admittedly not a religious person, but do have respect for people who do good deeds, help others, and who strive to be better people, religious or not.

While I have no objection to people having religious beliefs, I only mind a little if people solicit others. The Mormons, for example, come by my apartment about once a year. I politely tell them I’m not interested, remind them that the apartment complex is posted “no soliciting”, and that’s that. No harm, no foul. But the “you don’t believe in [deity], so you’re going to BURN IN HELL” type preaching just turns me off.

Look up “Brother Jed” on YouTube. There’s a lot of videos. He’s borderline kooky in my view. His wife Cindy has the most terrible voice, too.

I’ve not seen Brother Jed in action, but his kind sadden me to no end. I know his type, and what he does is more about proclaiming his self-righteousness than it does about spreading God’s righteousness. He’ll move on to another campus, secure in his belief that he (and he alone) took the message of God to the heathen, and the hatred he got in return was the evil of the world persecutin’ him.

And the simple truths of 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 and 1 John chapter 4:7-21 will escape him once again.

Sigh.