I use’ta read the Bible a lot when I was a kid….more the old testament than the new…the old testament was exciting, even bloodthirsty 

what with wars ’n blood feuds ’n all that kind’a stuff…well Heck, y’know, I grew up with WWII (the big one) ’n was weaned on Robin Hood ’n westerns ’n war movies…we made our own bows ’n arrows, wooden knives and swords, ’n I recall one summer where we all had homemade rubberband guns ’n stalked the alleys of Beattyville hunting each other…

Anyhow, I’m just saying the old testament was a lot more interesting than the new testament...

Thing is, I consider m’self t’be a Christian ’n Jesus came along in the new testament…Back in the old testament days, God was something of a vengeful God…His way or the highway, y’know…eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth kind’a guy….trouble is, that eye for an eye thing, if you keep it up, you’ll end up with a world full of blind and toothless human beings…

Anyway, I figure that God knew that before any of us ’n decided that He was gonna do a reformation thing ’n that’s why He sent His only begotten son to tell us that He’d had a change of heart about being the vengeful God of old ’n from that time on, He was going t’be a forgiving God…Parents are like that, y’know, they start out being stern taskmasters but eventually they just shake their heads ’n give up…it makes life a whole lot easier to forgive your children ‘cause you can’t stop the little darlings from doing pretty much what they want to do anyway…..

So, I heard from an old friend t’other day ’n he was a little upset about this whole ‘Gay marriage’ thing ’n how the Book condemned homosexuality…I told him that God had made all creatures, great ’n small ’n that included homosexuals ’n if God made them, He did it on purpose so it couldn’t be a bad thing…I told him that the Lord moves in mysterious ways ’n while it might not be his thing, God also told us, “Judge not lest ye be judged” so it might be in his best interest if he’d just leave it up to God to work it out.

He changed the subject ’n then got another call ’n had to go….