>>> I generally resist the impulse to tread this turf. And probably should have tonight.
Never know what you can learn from an argument until you get into it. If conversion of the other side is the only means by which you can measure success or benefit of the argument, then all you get is a fight... which of course is something you are correct in avoiding.
My experience has been that the deeper we go with truth, the more controversial it is going to get... so at some point we are going to have to learn how to deal with the controversy, or we will simply stagnate in our own growth.
I’m more than willing to take an argument as far as it will go until feelings completely overtake reason.
I respect an honest discussion.
Unfortunately this “difference of opinion” is never likely to be overcome. It is based in a now foggy past that neither side any longer remembers accurately (none alive partook in the conflict and atrocities). But they none the less did take place. Although many deny them now.
Treachery has a way of cementing these things.
I have spent 40 years on the other side of the trench. And have spent a fair amount of time studying what is written about the events. Have many good Knights of Columbus friends who I have great respect for. And I have had open frank discussion of this with some of them, and we parted still as good friends. The top official in our state is a member of my lodge, and I am the secretary for that lodge. (member since my Junior year in College- 1969)
My Great Grandfather missed being a charter member by 2 weeks. We had our 100th anniversary a little over a year ago. My father and I are both actively involved.
TF