Dear Priviledge Sir.

Your request for an applicable reply to your recent letter has been denied. And you will not be receiving anything of that nature at this time. However, so as to not cause dissatisfaction or inadequacy to be conveyed through this document, I will tell you a story.

There once was a man. He was born a very long time ago into the world. Now the world was a horrible place. And it would remain so for the rest of eternity. The ‘world’ in fact was destined to become a cliché. Earth was the same of the planet. But ‘the world’ would be forever used to describe the Earth’s unrighteous people and habits. And this poor man was born into it. As we all are.
This ‘world’ thing existing somewhat delicately on this Earth was no one single thing. But everyone agreed it was a problem. Somehow… Now the righteous one’s of earth had themselves a field day trying to figure out what exactly this whole world thing was up to. I mean after all there was so much to cover. The earth was home. The world was a banished thing that must be held at arms length and crossed fingers. Finally they put the fingers down and decided that they might as well get all riled up and FIGHT the world for the way of the world.
Now every good homegrown Christian knows that the way of the world leads to death and destruction. And are to avoid it at all costs. The earth found itself in the midst of a tumult of war, not fought with guns and grenades but with policy and politics. And the world, it its infinite craftiness would constantly shapeshift itself so that those good and righteous homegrown Christians fighting could never really deal with all of it.
And so the battle raged on. The earth saw the world and those fighting to destroy it cycle through so many faces and phases. For years the world was ‘drugs and alcohol’ and we fought that till the end. Then it was ‘abortion’ and we raged against that as well, abandoning the drugs and alcohol for a bigger issue. Then the world changed again and we fought hard against merely ‘teen pregnancy.’ This we battled with a sordid combination of abstinence drills and statistics about every sort of “protection” one can imagine.
These battles, all a tiny part of a much bigger war of the worlds across the face of earth became more and more violent. People began to forget why they were fighting and merely began to attack everything that resembled the ‘world.’
Modern Day – Battles in the thousands. New Face of the World: Homosexuality. And the fight cycled and began and to this day rages in hot and dastardly strikes enemy to enemy, brother to brother. The world my friend is winning. Not because they were destined to win. But because the Christians born and bred as soldiers to fight the way of the ‘world’ have forgotten that they are not fighting against something, but that they began fighting for something. Now on the playing field we see homosexuals and those… yes those that hate them. With a burning passion they hate them. Because they are the world. And these people have been fighting the world for far too long and are tired of losing to the world. And a great hate wells up within them and they fight in a rage.
But what of that man? That single man who was born so long ago into this world? He saw the fighting and the world and those battling to suppress it and saw the anger rising in his own people and said to them “You’ve got it all wrong! All wrong!” He points his finger skyward and shouts “FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD! THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON! THAT WHOEVER IT IS THAT WANTS ETERNAL PERFECT LIFE AND SALVATION NEED ONLY BELIEVE IN HIM AND THEY WILL HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE!”

Priviledge… People are merely blind. And all they need is someone with eye’s to open theirs. But the last thing anyone needs is another hate. And another shouting in the streets about a great new death to the world. God promised the world everlasting life. We are the world, they are the world. “For all have sinned.” God mentions no exclusives. He has not chosen a select group of people to exist on the Alcatraz of hell. It is only that the world has been so many different things. And so many different things have been hated. One day, that will be us. When the world itself has gathered enough to turn and say – “We’re going to finish this fight. And this time, you’re the bad guy.” And then we will be all crushed. In the end. And that is Revelation. And that is history. And that is present. People have merely gotten it wrong because they’ve forgotten. Rest assured. God loves your brother. I love him too. People… don’t understand. Sometimes I think they never will. But again, you can’t stop hoping.
As far as the world is concerned, I feel them all around me, each and every one is different, and yet each and every one is the same. And they all have their horrible faults, and they all have their terrific struggles. And having watched them through all these years, I am not taken by cynicism and disdain as I thought I would be. Rather, I feel them to be... a Priviledge. Each story I encounter, no matter the nature, I consider it a priviledge to have interacted with another soul. Each and every time.