Lessons from a suicide letter

[Thav]

1. We have talked about this in our family.

One thing that my wife says that is very apt: "God does not want us to hate others because they sin differently from us."

We have also experienced hate in our church. Not directed at us, but at a community we support. My wife and I are active in a pregnancy center and did a goods fund raiser for them. My wife overheard someone saying, "Those whores don't need our support." She didn't call them out. I wish I had heard it I would have. "When the sick woman touched Jesus' robe, did Jesus say, 'you dirty whore, you don't deserve my help?' "

It's this hatred that most people experience about some Christians. Some of these Christians believe that all the blessings are reserved for people like them, and everyone else just isn't worthy. And that's sad.