A Comment

A Comment on My Testimony

Anonymous said...

This is just your typical "I faced great hardship and eventually just accepted that God isn't really mean and cruel, he has a plan for me" nonsense. You were right to begin with. Either God doesn't exist at all, or if he does, he is a spiteful, evil a-hole that doesn't deserve to be worshiped. Enjoy your new crutch.


Blogger Will McCullough said...

“Anonymous”,


Sounds like you have some pain of your own. I'm very sorry. I just ask that you please hear me out for a minute.

Having previously shared your perspective for decades, I can relate to your rage.

In fact, I’d say that therein lies the “proof”.

Think about it from the perspective of an unbiased observer:

On one side we have a grown man, father of two, etc…expressing his inner heartfelt pain to the world at how his parents were ripped from him at an early age. He’s expressing to the world what affect that had on him. He’s doing it in a way that is only critical of himself. He’s voicing no judgment of others.

But because he mentions Christ, because he credits Christ with finally giving him peace on this matter:

It creates a rage in a young man sitting half a world away at 1:00 AM, who’s only instinctive reaction to hearing this story of pain( followed by hope) is to spew venom and ridicule.

So if I, as a hypothetical unbiased observer, read both the story and your comment, I can then ask myself a question:

Which story instinctively makes one feel better, more complete as a human, more hopeful, more uplifted? Kind of like “This is how it’s supposed to be.”

Which story incites rage and anger (regardless of which side of the coin you personally come down on.) It might be anger to defend my point or yours…but it incites anger regardless.

Proof. Proof of our fallen stature.

I’m sorry but anger and rage are the language of satan. And you are acting as his puppet whether you believe in him or not.

I’d respectfully ask that you consider self-analyzing why you would be so quick to respond w/such venom to such a non-adversarial story.

I know this will come off as condescending…and it’s really not meant that way. But honestly, I’d ask you to consider trying to pray about it. Just you and God in private. No one will ever know. You might just get a surprise.

But I will pray for you either way. I will pray that Christ makes himself known to you in a tangible and dramatic way.

I also forgive you for making light of the situations surrounding the pain of the loss of my parents. I really do.

One last question, I respectfully ask you to monitor how you’ve felt in reading this. If your instinctive gut reaction is one of defensiveness or anger – I’d ask you to really think hard about where (or from whom) that is coming from.

Mat 24:9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. (ESV)


John 15:19-21 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

-Will McCullough