Let me tell you a little story.

One day, I saw a man with a megaphone, chasing children around in my neighborhood, condemning the children to hell, because the man thought they were dressed a little weird.

From his megaphone he yelled, “you’re going to hell!” To children. For dressing different.

A few feet away, somebody with a “God Hates Gays” sign was livestreaming the harrasment,

and the police observed.

So I stood in between the man and the kids. I’m tall, I’m used to bullies, better me than them.

And I blasted “A Whole New World” to contain the situation (and demonetize the man’s footage).

Then, the man, no longer able to attack the children, looked at me and said,

“They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”

A perfectly accurate recitation of Romans 1, except that he completely inverted the meaning of the passage by cutting it short.

So I said to the man, “Finish the sentence. If you quote Romans 1, you need to quote Romans 2 to finish the sentence. Therefore you have no excuse when you condemn others, for in doing so, you condemn yourself.