oh HELL yeah...
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.
I’ve been checking out Quora lately. I’ve found that a lot of questions on it are loaded to advanced a certain point of view. This is a example of that because it isn’t really a question as much as a accusation disguised as a question. Also, I haven’t heard D&D being called devil worship in 30 years.
Yeah exactly. So many conservatives keep their politics to themselves.
https://www.quora.com/Every-conservative-I-have-met-has-been-a-bully-Who-are-some-nice-conservatives
but only returns a "Page not found" error message from the site.
What's the deal here?
If that's not "bullying" (or worse) then please, any liberal lurkers out there, uncloak and tell us your definition of bullying and coercion and defend how liberals' actions are not all that and more.
“...career working for nonprofits”
Sorry, that is a hard core liberal.
Totally clueless that Conservatives are treated far, far worse in CA, OR and WA.
“D&D is a tool of Devil worship”
Isn’t it?
“Every leftie I have met has been a degenerate moron. Who are some decent conservatives you have met?”
Fixed it...
to a ‘hardcore lefty’ anyone who speaks an opposing opinion is ‘a bully’.
“Leftists Lie as Easily as they Breath”
didnt need to read any further
oh HELL yeah...
No such thing as a “christian pantheist.”
There is one God and savior — Jesus. Before him was no god formed and neither shall there be after. (Isaiah 43:10ff)
Who are some nice conservatives you have met?”
ALL OF THEM
Be polite be professional and have plan to kill everyone to escape.
AMEN
Words to live by.
That’s a keeper. Thanks.
Yes
yet...
Every liberal I’ve met is a potential future CONSERVATIVE.
They’ve just not been mugged yet.
Like the question the libs failed to ask yesterday?
Like polls.
You NEVER see the QUESTIONS asked; just the 'results' of the 'poll'.
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