Yeah. Absolutely.

First off, consider his refusal to respect space and boundaries. Suppose he's in your house and doing some work and then flips out on you because your 2 year old came streaking through the living room (as they do).

You ask him to leave.

Does anyone actually believe he would, given his behavior or moral superiority at the beach?

After all, he's got a moral mandate, from God, to set you straight for Jesus. You bad mother, you. You're raising an immodest child. A Harlot. A Jezebel, who's gonna lure decent young men away from God. How dare you.

Now you've got a situation FEW people are equipped to deal with. An unhinged zealot in your house raving like a lunatic with a kid who's too young to understand what's going on in the mix. It's doubtful you're armed. Even if you are, you have to think about the kid, who's running around blissfully unaware and still without apparel.

There's no "right" way to respond. You cannot predict what will happen next because you're no longer within the realm or rational circumstance. You make your call, your best judgement, hoping that whatever happens next you'll be able to live with or be okay with.

Most likely you will, but as so many of us women know, you don't know till events have played out, someone somewhere sometime is going to lay it all at your feet regardless (or try to), and if things do go sideways it's always you that's going to bear the greatest burden from that and he will face little or no consequence.

If he does face consequence, he'll get all the sympathy in the world. Everyone will say what a shame it is that such a promising young man should go so wrong. How tragic! His poor boys! How will they cope without a father?

No one will remember you or your child's name.

Happens every day.

At least, Jesus can be proud that yet another "unrepentant woman" got put in her place by the righteous anger of a man convicted by faith. Yay God! Well done.

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I was watching his "apology" video. It's always kinda shocking the pride these people take in their zealotry. It's always a bit of a parade, isn't it?

"Look at my zeal! I'm on fire for God!"

I've said it many times before and I'll be saying it many more I'm sure. They don't know their own story. They never bothered to actually learn from Jesus, or read the Bible.

They never clue in, in all their pride, that the part they've chosen to play in life, the zealot, is the betrayer of Jesus. Or consider why the zealot took the coin in the first place. Because he wanted to place his own narrative of the messiah above what Jesus was trying to do.

Just saying. And again, well done Logan Dorn. You're playing the part of zealot immaculately. Bravo!