I had a friend in high school who was a big brain. I was jealous of his political knowledge, logic, and smooth rhetoric. When he finally asked me one day where I stood politically, whether as a conservative or a liberal, I found myself unable to give a straight answer.
The question still presses me now. If I were to update my response, I would say there are only those intentions, desires, thoughts, and actions that, on balance, are more loving, and those that are built upon error.
I strive to be more loving. I wish to be more moral than I was yesterday.
Whatever moral virtue I discover and instill in my own heart, people can ascribe it's place on the political spectrum to their own satisfaction. To me, the important question is not whose side I take but the morality of the decisions I make. In other words, can my feelings on any given subject line up with those of God?
The question still presses me now. If I were to update my response, I would say there are only those intentions, desires, thoughts, and actions that, on balance, are more loving, and those that are built upon error.
I strive to be more loving. I wish to be more moral than I was yesterday.
Whatever moral virtue I discover and instill in my own heart, people can ascribe it's place on the political spectrum to their own satisfaction. To me, the important question is not whose side I take but the morality of the decisions I make. In other words, can my feelings on any given subject line up with those of God?
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