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All right. What feedback have you received from the book?

Could you have categories or kind of buckets of primary feedback?

And let's just say that do the hard stuff first or the negative stuff first and then the positive stuff.

If you're comfortable with that.

I would say the hardest one.

I don't want to identify it in such a way that gives them any publicity.

But a website, a blog post that was personally cruel in our comments about their view that anyone who talks about accepting gay people has missed the point that Christ will change us.

Because I didn't talk about that as the right answer that I am anti-Christ and a few other things.

I was stunned that anyone would be like a evangelical Christian view.

Well, I would say a fundamentalist Mormon view.

And they're wanting you to condemn, be more condemnatory.

Well, yeah, that there is essentially it's the old thing of if you have not been changed is because you lack faith or haven't worked hard enough.

And therefore because of my message that I'm anti-Christ.

So that was that was the one that I've done most.

I'm sorry.

Did it like sometimes if you get a thick enough skin, you can just be like, oh, they don't, you know, they don't understand.

Bless them. Did that.

I got there, but that one took a few days because I just I was so cruel personally cruel.

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