I've got a bunch of post election stuff and just haven't been motivated to post it. Maybe I will sometime this week.
However, one thing I've seen quite a bit is people telling the world that they've completely broken off contact with family and friends who voted for Trump. Many of these people were pretty nasty. Surprisingly many of these people claim to be christians. Strangely enough 3 of the identifying principles of a cult are as follows
- Isolating members and penalizing them for leaving
- Seeking inappropriate loyalty to their leaders
- Dishonoring the family unit
There are a lot of Harris supporters out there who sound exactly like this, shouldn't that at least speak a bit of concern?
Strangely enough Jesus actually addressed this pretty directly. He said that loving those who love you, is pretty easy. That even the pagans do that. His followers were called to a higher standard. He told them to love their enemies, and those who persecute them. Back in the day, their enemies could absolutely make their lives miserable, or could kill them. Jesus was telling His followers to love those who could kill them. Now we have christians advocating the complete opposite of this, they advocate hating those who voted differently and separating ourselves over politics.
That doesn't really sound much like Jesus at all.
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Speaking only of myself, I will admit that I have a problem with associating with certain family and friends whose political and religious positions are opposite mine. But that's only that I don't bend over backwards to associate with them, not that I won't or don't. Had this election gone further to the dark side, it would have been harder for me knowing what it means for my family and friends, including those who voted for Kam-on-you-gotta-be-kidding-la Harris, and how they were too lazy to pay attention or worse, actually believe we'd be better off in a more expensive, more dangerous nation.
But on the whole, there's no way I can preach truth...either religiously or politically...to those who aren't associating with me. So total and complete estrangement just doesn't work for me.
At the same time, there was a time in my life when my sainted mother said in reference to me, "I can love you better at a distance." There's wisdom in those words.
Interesting. I have absolutely zero desire to disassociate from family or friends because of politics. Especially not to the level of them being dead to me as the left is advocating. As I've lost more and more family over the last few years, I'm more aware that some things just aren't as important as family.
That doesn't mean I don't think about blocking them on FB...
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