Posted: Jan 10, 2018 7:48 pm
Blackadder wrote:"I would say foolishly and wrongly, [I] attempted to push it away by giving an answer that, frankly, was not right."
Part of the difficulty he said he found himself wrestling with was the different understanding of what sin means to Christians and non-Christians.
"In the end, if you are a Christian you have a very clear idea of what sin is. It is us falling short of the glory of God, and that is something all of us equally share.
"So to be asked that question is essentially to persecute one group of human beings because sin is something, Jesus excepted, we are all guilty of. But if you are not a Christian, what does sin mean? It is to be accused of something, to be condemnatory, and so we are talking different languages.
While he said he could have tried to explain the biblical teaching on sex and sexuality, he said it would have been "naive in the extreme" to expect journalists to give him a hearing on the theological details.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/42638420
So he was being persecuted by being asked a direct question about his religious beliefs. They do like being nailed to a cross these Christians don't they?
I'm not totally sure that's what he means, but it looks unclear to me. I read it as persecuting one group of human beings (people who have gay sex), which is hypocritical because everyone is guilty of sin. Sort of a "cast the first stone" statement.