ViaCrucis
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We are living in a dictature of tolerance. Who does not agree with todays ideas of good and wrong, is afraid to speak honestly. People are afraid to express freely their opinions about religions, about history, about society, about races, about nations, about the role of women... fear everywhere. You can be even jailed in the UK if you say you do not agree with homosexuality or with other similar wrong thing pushed forward by loud activists. This century will not be a good one, I guess.
When you have bad opinions, when your views involve bigoted, hateful, dehumanizing perspectives on other human beings. People are going to push back.
For one, literally nobody is obligated to agree with anyone else. I have opinions, but nobody is obligated to agree with my opinions. And nobody is obligated to give me a platform to voice my opinions. I am free to think and say whatever I want, but I am not free to think and say whatever I want with impunity, or without others disagreeing, or with others having a problem with it, or without consequences.
But there's something more here that seems important. This isn't about culture or society, or about "PC" and "non-PC"; it's about what it means to be basically decent. Or, since I'm a Christian, what it means to be faithful and consistent with the basic principles of the Christian religion.
"Love your neighbor as yourself"
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
With the Royal Law of Love, as St. James calls it, there's no room here for prejudice, hatred, and attitudes toward other human beings that is anything less than completely compassionate and loving.
Loving other people is not only what we're supposed to do. We should consider it a privilege to be able to do so. It should be our joy to treat other people with respect and kindness. To "regard others more highly" than ourselves.
St. Paul in his letter to the Philippians sets for us a standard of how we should think, of the kind of attitude we should have in this world,
"Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross."
-CryptoLutheran
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