Because freedom was never won by a coward.
Courage is not equal to acting like a jerk.
Can people think outside of Satan’s box for a change?
Here, put yourself in the sheriff’s place. Let’s say you needed to learn that someone taking pictures while bearing arms isn’t the worst thing in the world, at the same time you would care for the responsibility that comes with knowing that a lot of Islamic terrorists have pulled stunts like this. How would you want someone to approach you?
The Golden Rule really does work wonders in mellowing out your approach to someone who needs to learn better.
I really fear that our mindset towards what is, yes, a badly erring government is “oh damn them to hell.”
THAT IS WRONG... GOD SAYS SO....
The idea is to bless them back to heaven! We are fighting a SPIRITUAL battle in which the human is precious, the devil is the trash.
And the battle is also easier than the devil would lead us to believe. The devil will throw all kinds of BS in our face... but it’s only BS... if we do not internalize it (to use a modern word, the classic word is to believe it) we WILL push past it! We have a God that is more interested in blessing than in damning us. Damning is something like plan Z, after plans A-Y have failed. It’s the devil who has the vested interest in damning.