I listen to many Christian radio preachers via podcast. Pete Briscoe suggested on his Telling the Truth podcast last month that one day you may happen upon a terrible traffic accident. What if, he posited, there were hundreds of agonized, suffering people strewn everywhere on the scene - desparately needing help and comfort? Would you start by wandering through the crowd and asking each of them, "were you responsible for this tragedy?" before helping them?
Of course not!
And yet that is how many of us - to this day - have viewed the AIDS crisis. Wondering, or suggesting, that helping people who are literally dying before our eyes may somehow "endorse" some of the contributing factors we oppose.
Faced with Pete's brilliant metaphor of a traffic accident - every one of us would jump in and help the suffering accident victims now - then ask questions and put up a better stoplight later.
I finally get it.
What do you believe ?
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