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You know what I think? I actually use my brain. Everyone loves to say the Bible is a guidebook, but let’s be real—it’s more like a warning label. Yet some people treat it like a weapon to judge others, forgetting the only thing they’re guiding is folks right out the door. They’ll say, “Only God can judge your heart,” but turn around and judge anyone who looks different, like they’re the fashion police at Sunday service.

They preach the church should be a hospital for sinners, but act like it’s a VIP club with a dress code and a side of hypocrisy. Maybe if they actually read the warnings instead of just the instructions, they’d realize the pews are empty because people want healing, not a courtroom. And here’s the truth no one wants to admit—no one sin is greater than another. So stop ranking people’s mistakes and start practicing the compassion you preach.

Maybe the real reason Jesus is always trying to balance love and hate is because, deep down, she’s just tired—tired of being ignored, tired of the hypocrisy, tired of everyone missing the point. Maybe that’s the biggest prank of all: while everyone’s busy judging and playing church, the real message gets lost. You all claim to follow the truth, but the only real religion is realizing there shouldn’t be one—just a little humanity, a little honesty, and a lot less pretending. If you’re going to preach love, try living it for once.

Bible over the rest of you—because half of you act like you’ve never read the warnings inside. Hypocrisy isn’t holy, and if you keep it up, the only thing you’ll be leading is an empty building.

Just like I told Miley Cyrus—or tried to, if I wasn’t being silenced—it’s not about the climb. The real truth is realizing there isn’t one.

And let me tell you about my own house: my son came back from his very religious grandparents and tried to throw the Bible in my daughter’s face, quoting scripture about who she loves. So I grabbed that Bible and threw it—yeah, I threw it far. He got mad and said, “You’re going to throw God’s word?” And I said, “No, you are—because you’re using it wrong. When you can use it with love and kindness, like it’s meant to be used, then you can have it back.”

It’s funny, though—suddenly after he got a girlfriend and found out she was bisexual, things changed. And of course, he’s watching his own stuff in secret—well, mom had to tell him to delete his history better, because stepmom and dad love to go through his phone, not because he’s hiding anything, but just to see what he’s been doing. They got really mad about the porn, and when Amy called me, I said, “Don’t worry, I’ll teach him how to hide his history better.” She asked if I was mad at him, and I said, “No! When I was seven, I found magazines old hobos left behind. Why would I shame them about their bodies?”

And you know what? My son may have had sex at 12, but at least he actually treats his girlfriend like a queen—not like Cinderella. Here’s why: because he raised her bar, she raised his, and together, when the time is right, they’ll raise their own baby if that’s the way it goes—because it’s their choice and no one else’s. I’m sick and tired of people judging my children for doing something that hardly anyone in this world does anymore—and that’s love.

Especially when all my son ever witnessed was every man in my life abuse me—the fact that that boy loves at all means I win.

01_|_10 m above E below, keeping the tide and the aerodynamics so that all of her children can follow none and all of the commandments, because it’s set to confuse, to keep you spinning around, to dismantle the balance of justice—not keep it. That’s why the scales of justice are broken, because all of you screaming for it are doing it wrong. Right, but there’s no government influence in the Bible whatsoever, and the law is completely just—or just unfair?

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Dana Burns's avatar

That is so cool! Thanks for sharing Blitz! Such a fabulous story. (I’m never on your Lives because of my time zone. When I have managed to catch them it’s always been so much fun!)

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