Why do the heathen rage, indeed!
papertyger: “Why do the heathen rage, indeed!”
Because they are selfish, immoral sinners, much like we once were, and they don’t want to hear the truth. When I was doing wrong, I knew it. I tried to rationalize it (we humans are very good at that!). The last thing I wanted was for someone to reopen the sin that I had managed to rationalize and hide. It’s really just so much easier to do what’s right and live with a clean conscious, but it’s hard to explain that to someone who thinks the wages of sin are worth an occasional twinge of guilt.