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Originally Posted by awediot
True, but I'm having a hard time believing you'd hire someone who thinks God hates you and you are out to drag as many American families to hell with you as you can... You'd have to be sorta nuts.
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If I'm openly gay and I hire them, not because of their beliefs, but because of their value as a good employee and I treat them with respect and fairness... there's a good chance they will see that my sexual orientation has nothing to do with my values and good character.
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Originally Posted by awediot
I'm not talking about those with different views. I'm talking about those with diametrically opposed, if not down right dangerous ones.
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I'd have to know what kind of dangerous threat they are.
Believe me, I know that it's not easy to respect those who hate us. I sometimes find myself saying some nasty things out of anger about our opponents. Just this week I referred to them as "airheads," which I later regretted. I'm human so I screw up a lot.
But the problem is that when I hate the hater then
I also become a hater too. It's like the so called "enlightened" liberals who have no problems referring to white Southerners who live in mobile homes as "trailer trash." The "enlightened" liberals subconsciously justify their hate because, after all, "trailer trash" are nothing but "ignorant inbred bigots."
They hate the hater. And sometimes we all do that. But it's really all about fear, isn't it? We fear each other so we hate each other. If we stop fearing each other then chances are the hate will also cease.
Am I right about this?
This all takes me back to that song from the the Sixties with the words.....
Love is but the song we sing,
And fear's the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry
Know the dove is on the wing
And you need not know why
Come on people now,
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try and love one another right now
If you hear the song I sing,
You must understand
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both
It's there at your command
Come on people now,
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try and love one another right now
Right now
Right now!
It's
not as easy as the song makes it sound. But maybe it's worth a try.
Below is from another post on this forum about love that also fits here:
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Originally Posted by Daniel
Be the love you seek.
Lastly- the Golden Rule teaches us to treat others as we would have them treat us- which sounds like love/compassion to me. And the above has been - for me anyway- as about the most sane way one can go about it.
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Rick