Don’t worry. It’s not up to you whether a friend of yours goes to hell or not. So nobody’s asking YOU to “consign” a friend to hell. Maybe your gay friend will go to heaven, because he’s invincibly ignorant. Maybe your mother is in hell because of a sin you know nothing about. Your opinion of any person simply doesn’t matter.
That doesn’t change the truth on iota. It is a gross distortion of the gospel to say that we must “forgive” Obama, and therefore must shower him with honors and hospitality and praise—which is what creeps like Dolan keep doing.
He’s a friend.
I owe him my arm to hold him out of the pit, at least.
What about this?
September 7, 2014
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Ez 33:7-9
Thus says the LORD:
You, son of man, I have appointed watchman for the house of Israel;
when you hear me say anything, you shall warn them for me.
If I tell the wicked, “O wicked one, you shall surely die, ”
and you do not speak out to dissuade the wicked from his way,
the wicked shall die for his guilt,
but I will hold you responsible for his death.
But if you warn the wicked,
trying to turn him from his way,
and he refuses to turn from his way,
he shall die for his guilt,
but you shall save yourself.