Thanks for your recent posts on this thread.
As I was reading them, I recalled the Ignatian “Presupposition” re: dialogue:
“....let it be presupposed that every good Christian is to be more ready to save his neighbor’s proposition than to condemn it. If he cannot save it, let him inquire how he means it; and if he means it badly, let him correct him with charity. If that is not enough, let him seek all suitable means to bring him to mean it well,....”
I think you have applied this Ignatian rule, MD, even if by some chance you were not familiar with it.
How we offer (deliver) our message is vital to its reception.
Again, thanks for your recent posts here.
I try. I really think that some of us and many of them do not care about this. Again, like the Muslims, they are more interested in saying, “We are not like you; go away,” than in entertaining the possibility that there might be some common ground upon which we might build.