To posters who question the suitableness of a Christian's

Jun 2, 2020, 2:48 AM

response to current events:

We have been divided before. Who can forget kids killed at Kent St? Or MLK shot? Race riots in Boston and elsewhere. Those were bad times, too. Blacks wanted equal protection under the law. People wanted us out of Vietnam. There was a lot of anger directed at articulated issues with demanded solutions.

Today there is a very high degree of anger that is untethered to an identifiable injustice and demand. That is a definition of hate.

Opportunistically, that hate is used by the left and right for their purposes. Groups like Antifa and right wing ones have been engaged in illegal acts for years, but have been allowed to grow as one party or another did not see fit to stop them: We have been napping on this for some time. The value they hold in common is hate. Non specific, no actual goals, just hate.

So, a black person is killed by a white policeman. Statistically, that was not a racially defined incident. It might have been in that case, and systemic issues might exist in how police departments confront individuals. But the truth is that the race of a suspect has no statistical bearing on whether an engagement with a police officer is fatal. (Links available upon request). If a white officer confronts a suspect, the race of that suspect is not a statistical factor in whether a fatality occurs.

What is possible is that whites commit crimes at the same rate as blacks but are not confronted as often. It is possible that white police officers (not black ones, but white ones) are attuned to and seek out black suspects but not white. It is possible that police are trained in a way that escalates too many confrontations into violent ones. (Personally, the latter seems the most plausible, but that's another subject.)

But none of that is what we are hearing. A black man was killed. Blacks let loose an anger at something, but there is not a specific demand, which is fine at the point of a protest: understanding can come from that. Instead, Antifa and other groups used that hate as fuel to trigger riots for their own hate. Media and politicians line up into the two groups to voice their hate.

It's all hate. It wasn't like this in 1965. There was a lot of anger, but not hate. The two are not the same at all.

So, now you want my "Christian" response, and if you don't like it you will call me names.

No. That is not my answer to hate. If you want to talk truth rather than accusation, we can talk. But to hate? Your hate? Generalized hate? No. I do not owe you a response to that.

I do have a response to it. I know who you are. I know you are not a concept. I know where you came from. I know you are alive - a thing you will regret - and that you have an agenda. Human actions chronicled as history are the backdrop for a story that started before we were here. You rode a tank, held a general's rank, when the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank. I am not puzzled at the nature of your game. When accusations formed from a lie are used to divide, I know its you. How ya doin'?

We both have read the end of the story, so we know you lose. You went all in 2000 years ago, and Jesus held an ace you didn't count on: He loves me more than you hate Him.

I have no response to you, or to those who unwittingly parrot your line. Except this: Jesus. You hate that word, don't you? Jesus. This is your home now, not Jesus's, or mine. He has prepared a Home for me, and I have chosen it. You can do to me what you want, but I will not hate you, or anyone here. I will not hate. The next person who wants to speak respectfully with me can do so, no matter the past, including a rioter who attacked a defenseless female on the street, because I have chosen Home, and I will explain it to as many people as I can.

I do not owe even that response to anyone. But I do owe Him. I know hate when I see it. To those spreading it, I have no response. To hate, Jesus answers for me.

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