A former student (agnostic) from my REL2011 class contacted me and asked me what I thought about the role of compassion and mercy in Christianity. He was troubled by conversation with his Christian friends about Bruce Jenner's transformation into Caitlyn and their condemnations of it as "sin." He wanted to know what I thought.
I told him that in classic orthodox Christianity, there is an understanding that we have all sinned, and that all sins are more or less equally sinful, but that the most insidious sins are the sins of the heart; such sins as self righteousness, pride and judgment. These are the sins that Christ vigorously confronted in the religious leaders in Matthew 23.
Then I shared with him this video clip from the 2003 film LUTHER.
Greatly enjoyed this movie, and a very appropriate clip to illustrate your point.
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