Disagreeing in an Agreeable Way
What has happened in America today? Are we reverting to a time in our past when someone who disagrees with your view on an issue calls for bloodshed in a duel? Is that confrontation so severe the ability to discuss a point of view no longer matters. Have we allowed change to physical violence to batter their opponent into conforming to their view? Have we lost the ability to argue our ideas, present our points, and to listen to another person’s thoughts on a matter still being willing to weigh what the other person has to say?
Have we regressed to the point when people with dissenting voices shout down an opposing point of view are being presented without giving the speaker a chance to lay out his reasoning? Anarchy and mob violence have replaced the person on a soapbox at a street corner preaching, sharing a different concept, or even sharing a new point of view. Whether the views expressed are reasonable or rational, the individual has the constitutionally guaranteed right to speak freely. What we have so recently labeled as hate or offensive speech was ignored and allowed to die without laws. Ideas that have no basis of truth, fail if not promoted or encouraged by media. In today’s society, a person sharing the absolute truth found in God’s Word the Bible, is ridiculed and labeled as intolerant. That person is branded as a hatemonger, narrow minded, a bigot, or racist even though the view isn’t against a nationality or skin color.
Galatians 4:16 says, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” Today, the Liberal crowd has turned truth upside down and with a warped logic and distorted view of facts. In Isaiah 5:20 and 21, God’s Word says in the last days, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight.”
Tried and true morals are being cast aside, replaced with the “If-it-feels-good do it” perception of life. Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it” Jeremiah 9:5,6, also says, “And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.” In the last days…?