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THANKS TONS for your kind words.

More importantly, thanks tons and tons and tons

for your masterful and Holy Spirit brilliance in doggedly coming up with the different thread categories to meet every need and sensibility.

I pray that God Himself is increasingly stern in a tough love way with folks who selfishly, arrogantly, parochially, blindly, narrowly DEMAND, INSIST that ONLY THEIR constructions on reality have FR’s permission for expression.

I’m prayerfully getting tougher with myself about any unnecessary divisiveness. However, that does not mean I won’t be just as forceful and fierce about the truth; about error; about sinful idolatries etc.

Some of us, by God’s Grace, really do have the capacity to deplore ideas, habits, practices, beliefs which we find in violent contradiction to Scripture and God’s Scriptural priorities

WITHOUT

feeling anything but caring, love toward the most fierce of our opponents.

That’s just a fact.

Playing political manipulation games with constructs like “hate” and “bigotry” are transparently duplicitous and horrid. Folks who do so are not fooling anyone and least of all God. Playing such games in a deliberately deadly assaultive way on the universal Body of Christ is not likely to amuse nor please our Heavenly Father.

And, some of us will be persistently tasked to speak up forcefully about such priorities.

God has a faithfulness out of His Love for us to gore all our sacred oxen. He uses events, circumstances, loved ones, even our sworn and committed enemies—everything in that faithful training of us.

In my experience, those authentic Christians

WHO

LOVE GOD FIRST, FOREMOST AND ALWAYS BEYOND ALL ELSE

will persistently say uncle, Yes, Lord, I repent, Lord; help me overcome and alter my behavior and heart attitudes, Lord. Help me keep the sacred cows slain, Lord.

Those who continue at some level in some corners of their person to maintain a death-grip on their sacred cows

will persistently throw dust in the air; wail, whine, rationalized, manipulate, control, play political games etc. . . . all for the most “RELIGIOUSLY RIGHTEOUS” sounding reasons.

But God sees through all such games.

And, so do a lot of simple, humble, flawed humans.