Remember, he was also a pastor...

[mikelewis]

An excerpt:

“I’ve said to you on many occasions that each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality. We’re split up and divided against ourselves. And there is something of a civil war going on within all of our lives. There is a recalcitrant South of our soul revolting against the North of our soul. And there is this continual struggle within the very structure of every individual life. There is something within all of us that causes us to cry out with Ovid, the Latin poet, ‘I see and approve the better things of life, but the evil things I do.’ There is something within all of us that causes us to cry out with Plato that the human personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions. There is something within each of us that causes us to cry out with Goethe, ‘There is enough stuff in me to make both a gentleman and a rogue.’ There is something within each of us that causes us to cry out with Apostle Paul: ‘I see and approve the better things of life, but the evil things I do.’

“So somehow the ‘isness’ of our present nature is out of harmony with the eternal ‘oughtness’ that forever confronts us. And this simply means this: That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals. The person who hates you most has some good in him; even the nation that hates you most has some good in it; even the race that hates you most has some good in it. And when you come to the point that you look in the face of every man and see deep down within him what religion calls ‘the image of God,’ you begin to love him in spite of. No matter what he does, you see God’s image there. There is an element of goodness that he can never slough off. Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.”

[jmbar2]

1. From "Five essential sermons delivered by Martin Luther King Jr."

[haele]

2. That is how one can love mankind in general but hate specific people...

Especially those who supposedly know better and can recognize an action that is wrong and hurtful, but walk around so fearful of not being able to control their surroundings they let the worst within them take over, and become a danger to themselves, the ones they supposedly care about, and society at large.
What's worse, those people also cannot seem to allow themselves to take responsibility when they make decisions and do things that are hurtful or harmful.
Mr. Pastor failed his test to his purported God. He turned away and listened to his inner demons.

From what I've read in early Christian writings, Salvation requires he take responsibility for his deeds, rather than put out a casual "oh, yeah. I got mad and sinned by getting angry and forgetting my training - oh, and yeah I'm sorry she got in front of my bullets - and I promise to accept Christ's forgiveness..." to the universe.
Pastor Ross failed his test. And I suspect he's been failing for a long, long time.

It wasn't until the gangland style selling of indulgences that people were allowed to be theiving, murderous assholes and still pretend to themselves and everyone else they were going to go to Heaven.