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You have set yourself up as my judge, a role for which you are wholly unprepared.

My preparation is beyond your wildest dreams.

But on a different subject, what need have I to judge you? You repeatedly assert that you reject God's love in the name of God's love. That you reject Jesus's compassion in the name of Jesus's compassion. That you scorn tenderness and mercy and forgiveness amongst human beings as a gross misunderstanding of what Jesus taught. And that God can't even see us because of the utter blackness of our sins, and that our lives are best spent in constant awareness of needing to hide in cracks in utter shame for existing.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what you are saying, repeatedly, is the teaching that Jesus brought?

So what need do I have to judge you - in the sense that you mean? How could I damn you any worse, if I wanted to damn you (which I don't). What possible level of hideousness and self-hatred could I force upon you, than that which you already force upon yourself?

Unless, of course, you mean by "judge" that I refuse to damn you, or myself, or anyone, and refuse to see you, or myself, or anyone as the abject specimen of revulsion that you insist we actually are. That instead I strive to see as our very essence, the divine love of our Creator. That I see Jesus AS God seeing us in our sin, and loving us in our sin, and healing us in our sin, and bringing us back to Him in joy and celebration, because He never, ever forgot us or stopped loving us.

If that's what you mean by judging you, yes indeed I do judge you in that way.

And there is absolutely nothing you can do to ever stop me.

Oh and one more thing. If what I believe means I'm going to hell, then I look forward to it.

And if what you claim is true is true - is actually the nature of God - then I will be glad and grateful to go to hell and never, ever meet such a monster.

Are we clear now?