[boatbums]

You do realize, I hope, that your constant barrage of name-calling and imaginary persecution is coming across as bullying, don't you? Do you honestly expect a respectful answer to your questioning? It smacks of “Inquisitional Fervor” and not Christian love. I had hoped better of you.

[metmom]

John 15:18-21 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.