The witness of Christian life is so weak and diluted with worldliness today, that relative to the norms the Lord knows is possible, that it itself looks like hate. We’ve taken worldly success to be one and the same with the grace of God, when they aren’t.
A Christendom with a life of little or no succor will also show little or nothing that a person mired in vice could desire as an alternative.
To point this out is not an exercise in carping or abstract blame. It’s a lament about how the successes of Christendom have spoiled it. No visible enemy means no effort mustered to snatch its victims out of the flames.
The good Lord knows that all, and has wiped smugness off the American Christian face by letting the devil seize a bit of the “gay” prize. Now at this point, Christendom can either hang it up concluding that we’re Sodom now (as was widely alarmed was about to happen) or else look to the Abrahamic bargain that was fulfilled in Christ.
Really like your 4th paragraph.