Posted on 11/13/2016 9:46:43 AM PST by heterosupremacist
I don’t know a lot of people who aren’t angry right now. We’re angry about who won or angry about how we’re being characterized or angry about increased violence against marginalized populations or angry about protests or just angry in general. Even the people who are pleased with Tuesday’s results seem pretty miserable now, and it’s no wonder.
The Devil loves division. He loves the divisions within Christianity that cause us to bicker amongst ourselves while ignoring the masses desperate to hear the Gospel. He loves the divisions within the Catholic Church that leave us loathing people with whom we receive communion because they use the wrong language or fight for the wrong causes or play the wrong instruments. He loves it when people embrace an ideology and ignore humanity.
So here we are, a country divided, clinging to our anger while the Devil exults. And somehow I can’t point out the suffering of survivors of abuse without being accused of pampering them and I can’t explain that pro-life doesn’t mean misogynistic without being tarred with the same brush. We’re standing in our echo chambers filling up on the rage that bounces back at us, ready to take down anyone who comes against us. But the election is over. The decision has been made.
And now we have to decide: do we stew in our anger, reading article after article about how wrong and bad the other side is? Or do we step outside the divisions and choose instead to love? There’s so much to be angry about. But anger only confuses, endangers, and destroys. Love heals.
(Excerpt) Read more at aleteia.org ...
What difference does it make, as long as in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed? And in that I rejoice. Indeed I shall continue to rejoice. —Philippians 1:18
Am I right, George Soros? Up high!
Of course the Devil exults. He had a field day with Obama, and his minions are going to stay whipped up for a while.
She probably doesn't know a lot of Trump voters either.
You were dead in your transgressions and sins / in which you once lived following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient.Descriptive of Satan and how he works in terms of broadcasting his empathic hate propaganda.
There is a difference between appropriate and inappropriate anger. To merely classify anger as bad is as infantile as classifying all fire as bad.
Thank you for reminding us. Very good article and very appropriate in the current time.
Humor added.... Must be a UNC fan and just can’t stand those Duke Blue Devils..
“Even the people who are pleased with Tuesday’s results seem pretty miserable now...”
Not me, nor anyone I know.
Speak for yourself.
Good Lord, I wish people who stop making blanket statements about everyone as if they were true.
Re : Post #9 ~
“So here we are, a country divided, clinging to our anger while the Devil exults.
Speak for yourself.
Good Lord, I wish people who stop making blanket statements about everyone as if they were true.”
I DO speak for myself, those words were from the author, not from me...
I know.
That’s why I put them in italics.
How about:
Speak for yourself, Meg.
Re : Post #12 ~
“How about:
Speak for yourself, Meg.”
Ha! I like that better, b/c there is no possibility of a misunderstanding...
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