Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.
— Rick Warren
I am not typically a fan of Rick Warren, or anyone / anything connected with “community” megachurches. But as my father used to say, “even a stopped clock is right twice a day,” and he is square-on, in this!
Author: The Anglophilic Anglican
I am an ordained Anglican clergyman, published writer, former op-ed columnist, and experienced outdoor and informal educator. I am also a traditionalist: religiously, philosophically, politically, and socially. I seek to do my bit to promote and restore the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, in a world which has too-often lost touch with all three, and to help re-weave the connections between God, Nature, and humankind which our techno-industrial civilization has strained and broken.
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What a simple yet powerful statement. One of the biggest problems plaguing the World today is the successful brainwashing of people into believing that disagreement means fear or hatred. Phobia is mocked, and ‘hate’ has been outlawed. Kudos to Rick. I always considered him to be an Obama toady, but this statement refutes everything Obama and the entire Left thinks.
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Amen.
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