RE: "The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us..." should we be grateful?
July 19, 2015 at 10:57 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2015 at 10:59 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(July 19, 2015 at 10:50 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Honestly, how would you know? Many of us address religion the way we do because we care a great deal...just not about your religion, or your religious sensibilities. You may feel that this expresses some lack in -us-, but it could just as easily be pointed to as your feeling that your religious sensibilities should be privileged wherever you go, whomever you interact with.
Food for thought.
If you know that making fun of someone's beliefs to their face hurts their feelings, and you do it anyway, then you don't care about their feelings. And if you don't care about a person's feelings, I don't know how you can say you care about them.
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If you have a dear friend who is falling into some pretty messed up, harmful ways of thinking, you can still sit down and have a serious conversation with him and be honest with him. But there is a respectful and disrespectful way of doing it. And how you approach it will show how well you care.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh