Posted on 09/29/2018 5:11:42 AM PDT by daniel1212
I’m a hardcore lefty. I also live in Texas and have spent most of my career working for nonprofits. That means a lot of red-state right winging. Not the nice, necktie, Laffer-curve, “fiscal conservative, social liberal” guys either. Nice conservatives don’t run charities. They’re comfy where they are. You want to do good in Texas, you need full-on deplorables. You need the churches, the phone trees, the mailing lists. They’re the boots, or at least the sensible shoes, on the ground, knocking on doors and passing out leaflets and stacking donations til 4 in the morning.
Let’s be clear. Philosophically, these people were opposed to my… everything. Hellbound from the haircut down. Tabletop gaming! I had friends at one workplace who loved and collected board games. Me too! Chat went swimmingly until I showed them the dice my beloved sister gave me for Christmas and they told me D&D is a tool of Devil worship. Chilled the conversation somewhat.
But I’m a dope-ass grantwriter, so they put up with me. That by itself is a shot in the gut to “conservatives are bullies.” I spent years in evangelical conservative settings and was never treated poorly, beyond the usual office nonsense. It’s tempting to say “well, you were making them money,” but I wasn’t. They didn’t get to keep the money I made. The money I made went to strangers in desperate straits, people of different faiths, backgrounds, colors than the evangelicals I worked with. Those evangelicals a) put in 80 hour weeks to help them; b) put up with a walking billboard for every value they didn’t have because he could contribute.
Then I lost my job unexpectedly. That comes up in nonprofit work, alas. Budget’s always a shoestring. Still, it sucked. Last day, I was packing up and the woman next to me asked if I was leaving. I said yes. She asked if she could pray for me. I said sure. Do what you like on your own time, right?
Then she took hold of my hands.
Friends, I was not expecting that. I came up Catholic. I am now a Christian pantheist. Laying on of hands? Not a thing in any of that. At all.
And she prayed. No smug. No pity. Not a word of condemnation. Tears in her eyes, because she was worried about me. Praying, because that’s what she could do in that situation. She believed, so she stood with me and tried her best to help.
I’ve never forgotten that. Don’t think I ever will. My beliefs weren’t hers. My faith certainly isn’t hers. There is every reason to suspect I will live out my span and die without ever experiencing another laying on of hands. But this person used the most powerful tool available to her to be profoundly kind to me, at a time when I really, really needed it.
That’s not the act of a bully.
So there’s that.
“D&D is a tool of Devil worship”
Isn’t it?
Every lefty I have ever met is a tyrant.
They believe everyone must agree with them or be destroyed.
“I am now a Christian pantheist.”
Makes. No. Sense.
Indeed, but the writer is not a believer.
To the devout snowflake, a ray of sunshine is a “bully”.
That’s just weird. Shaking head and frowning strange.
They’ve met plenty of nice conservatives.
Many of us go about our lives without going on about politics, so they just dont know. That is until it becomes known, then THEY are the ones that turn into bullies.
The two are incompatible, but again, the man is nor a believe, but is giving a testimony contrary to the "clinging to guns and religion bitter deplorables," that liberals typically characterize conservatives as.
Exactly. I keep politics and religion out of any casual conversation unless I’m with like minded friends or those who disagree with me but have the intelligence to have a respectful discussion. The die hard leftists are indeed the true bullies when their views are challenged.
Every lefty I have ever met is a tyrant.
They believe everyone must agree with them or be destroyed.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
They either give that up or we will soon again be watering the roots of the Liberty Tree.
Beautiful, thank you for posting.
I have a lefty and a righty as parents... they both exhibit the exact same stereotypes about the other side.
I’ve met many lefties like this. To them you are a bully if you do not agree with them, while they’re screaming in your face about how wrong you are.
Dear liberal bully. A let me say 2 thing after your verbal attack. 1 I am a conservative. 2. Every liberal I’ve met is a fascist.
Mat Dear
You are not safe if you leave your home at night
Yes, of course, Quora, the place I got to for legitimate and stupid sh*t......
The loony LIB wrote wrote this tripe experiences everyone who disagrees with them as a “bully”. I guess reality is a bully then. This individual is a pathetic piece of work.
Check out your local church food pantry, leftie.
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