Lizzie: "You keep talking to yourself, people'll think you're crazy."
Lightnining McQueen: "Thanks for the tip."
Lizzie: "What? I wasn't talking to you!"
Well, as some of you know, last week I participated in launching The NALT Christians Project. I posted this video as part of the initial group of NALT videos.
For reasons I can only conjecture at, my video attracted much of the attention and consumed a majority of the "views."
Although it's only about 18,000 views it was/is still a strange experience to stop and think about 18,000 strangers out there looking at me for over 3 minutes. Listening to what I'm saying.
I cannot imagine what it must be like or feel like to be one of those viral-video "stars."
Anyways, because my video amassed significantly more views than other NALT videos, it also then became the place for the trolls of the interwebs to express their collective disgust at the NALT project in general, but against gay people in particular.
And, as it turns out, any one who might dare suggest the things I suggested in my video.
Wow. People can get fired up!
Of course, I'm not naive. None of it was surprising. I know how comment sections work, and typically it is not too pretty.
You certainly have no Christian attributes that I can detect. Stop "playing church", you aren't a child of God.
Colby is absolutely a liar, a pretender and a false prophet. The Bible predicted they (false prophets) would be quite numerous in the "end of the age".. and that time is right now.
This guy is such a liar. It literally says in chapter 6 of Corinthians that homosexuals will NOT enter the kingdom of God. So as a Christian, NO I will not support someone who is not going towards the kingdom of God. The devil supports those who are not going to Heaven, and I WILL NEVER have the same views that the devil has. Period!
Wow. Colby, you need to go back to the Bible and read it again. You are either foolish or you are lost and without understanding. The Bible is explicit on this topic of homosexuality.
Colby is just an actor and someone else is pulling his strings, telling him what to say.
May I suggest you may want to look into purchasing a millstone.
(After I told ^this guy^ that I thought it was mean to tell people to kill themselves, he said) Colby, Jesus Himself stated in Matthew 18:6 that it would be better for you to drown with a millstone around your neck rather than to cause young people to stumble. You are leading young people, by the hand, to eternal torment, and yes, you are correct, that makes me very angry. But not mean. I will fight until my last breath to protect my daughter against the disguised attacks from men like you, wolves in sheep's clothing attempting to infiltrate my Savior's flock.
In your video you said "I began to study the Bible." Sir, lying is a sin.
(editor's note: I told a few people I thought they were being mean and unkind. So this person said) This guy would have told Jesus "you have such malice and hatred and negativity" after he would of told them "unless you repent you will all likewise perish." Antichrist means "alternative Christ" in the Greek. This Man loves AntiChrist, a figment of his selfish imagination and is offended by the real Christ.
You said you couldn't find in the Bible regarding homosexuality is being condemned. You literally straight up lied. The only people who would fall for your video are those who never read the Bible, this won't influence Christians who actually follows what is stated in the New Testament. We follow the word of God, not men who changes the word into their own leisure like yourself. Have fun only attracting atheists and people who have already always supported lgbt rights like yourself.
I was encouraged early on to not read the comments on my video, but I've found them all to be far too fascinating to ignore. Plus, although I didn't list them here, there were a handful of very positive, encouraging, supportive and loving comments as well. And a lot more private messages and emails of support and thanks came in, too.
Even though the people above have said some really nasty things, and displayed an egregious lack of compassion, and have betrayed their own sorts of ignorance, I have not taken any of it personally. None of these comments have gotten to me. None of them have bothered me. None of them have got me fired up. (I did engage with a few people, if they actually asked a question. But I didn't dignify a lot of that stuff with any sort of response).
But honestly, the words above and the other couple hundred comments just don't bother me.
Because I know they're not actually talking to ME.
These words are not aimed at ME. It is not ME they are angry with, or threatened by.
Their anger, malice, and vitriol is aimed at someone else. Someone who's hurt them in the past. Or, perhaps, even themselves.
Their fear is driven by whatever system of beliefs they've been indoctrinated in to.
Their cruelty is a result of simply not understanding.
But none of it has to do with ME.
I just put myself out there and became an easy target. A place for people to direct their negative energies.
But since I know that none of the above words have anything to do with ME, then it frees me from taking any of it personal. Taking any of it to heart.
What? I wasn't talking to you!