Agreed! It is difficult to reach people who feel cornered or feel they know less about a topic. Their shield starts to come up, and the conversation begins to close. It’s as though it becomes an attack on one’s intelligence, when it is not. Reaching “adult” people who feel less informed is difficult because it becomes personal really quick, IMHO.
And our dear (or maybe we’re feeling not so dear) Left is in such a situation.
A lot of pride, not very much knowledge.
But that’s what has to be started with, if a quest to embrace them into some kind of sanity is to succeed.
Acts of God are required, in fact. I believe in acts of God. Acts of God took me out of a reflexively-left attitude (voted twice for Carter, and then Dukakis!) and mellowed my attitude over and over to boot.
Catgone it, God really cares about our souls, not just our earthly hides and guts. This is PERSONAL. I’m not proud of me. I’ve effed up in many common ways and in some uncommon ways too. I’m proud of God who keeps pulling me out of sin, over and over and over (and yet little by little, I stumble less and less and less badly with time).
God looks everywhere to see if anyone will answer His call. Questions about how this is staged on a deeper plane (predestination) don’t detract from the initial truth.
I don’t believe God arranged for Donald Trump to be here without any bigger picture in the plan.