If you don’t believe as I do …
then don’t talk to me,
don’t share my space.
For I do not want you in my space,
where I have to hear something
I do not agree with.
I don’t want you in my life.
If you don’t believe as I do …
then you are ignorant, uneducated, brainless.
For you don’t think as I do,
the only right way.
Me
Scrolling through social media for more than a second will convince us that the above words are the beliefs of many who post on such media platforms.
To me, such attitudes are far more dangerous to our societies, to the very survival of the human race than any far left or far right attitudes … for to reject each other based on our different perspectives is shallow, impulsive and a premeditated abandonment of a fellow human soul whose worth is, has never been and will never be based on our thoughts, attitudes or even behaviors.
I fear we are losing our grip on the value of our fellow humans, on human life itself.
To believe in the value of human life is love one another, as Christ loves us. This is the Good News of the Gospel. This is what can save our human race … it is the only thing that can. He does not love us because we agree with Him, because we do what He says, because we have it all together. As a matter of fact, He loves us in spite of the reality that don’t do or say or think as He does.
In Romans 5 we are reminded that Christ died for us, the ungodly … and this applies to us all … wherever our thinking and opinions and actions lie. Who that we know (including ourselves) will sacrifice … not for those closest, but for those who are so far on the ‘opposite’ side of whatever ideology we might hold to be true?
What brings us together … our human souls and the One who created us … is greater than what divides us. Perhaps we ought to water rather than cut down?
Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us. Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.
Romans 12:3-5
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