Thursday, September 20, 2018

417. Things Well-Meaning People Have to Avoid Meaning




No, no, Nike, think about what you're putting on the defiant Kaepernick poster.  "Believe in something.  Even if it means sacrificing everything."  Something.  Any damn thing?  Come on. 

Your statement covers the guy who believes that a God who loves him guides his stock market choices.  He sacrifices his savings, his car, his house.   He's under your tent, Nike.

You're like the well-meaning preacher who so believed that "we should love people who are different from us" that she had us rejecting Paul in the Bible.  He made money-making soothsayers, people who had to be distinguished from true prophets, as unlovable as he could.  Made them demons who had to be cast out in Jesus name (Acts 16-19).  But no, said the well-meaning preacher, the demons had to be loved.  They came under the tent of "difference."  (See Post 207.)
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