I Love You . . . at least I will try.

It is no wonder we all hate each other in the United States. A not so very uncommon occurrence happened recently and both sides latched on to it and blew it out of proportion . . . and we lapped it up like cats and dogs; spreading the hate like a virus with little jabs at the other side on our social media updates. I would use several links in this blog if I thought for one moment that what happened yesterday wasn’t so pervasive that there was a single person out there that did not know what I was talking about. Frankly, I am so sick of hearing about it from both sides that I would rather not even look at another link specifically related to this topic.

I wouldn’t even post this blog, but my heart aches at all the hatred out there right now and I can’t do anything else until I get this off my chest. Right now I am supposed to be getting ready to go out and buy some presents for my friends and family. The reason I do this is to celebrate God’s love and the gift that He gave us (and the gifts that He continues to give us) to show his love – to show his love for everyone. Every. Single. Person. Whether you agree with that person, love, or even hate that person. God loves that person. Period. At least that is what I hold to be paramount in my belief system.

I don’t want to get religious here but there really is no other way around this subject matter. Please don’t be offended by my beliefs and I will do everything I can not to be offended by your beliefs. But I believe that God loves you – whether or not you believe that too.

So a person gets fired by his employer for saying something that they believe and either that person is the devil incarnate or the company that no longer required their services is the fruit of the devil and everyone that works there should be shot. That was the basic consensus I got from reading my social media newsfeeds yesterday.

No seriously, here are some quotes from my newsfeed yesterday:

’I wish y'all cared as much about your senators, mayors and local governments as you do about Duck Dynasty.’

This gives the air that you believe all the people that watch this show are ignorant, or at the very least, uneducated about the government process. How does a comment like this make people that watch the show feel?

God loves the uneducated.

‘I'm not mad at Phil Robertson, I believe ignorant people should have ample opportunity to identify themselves.’

That would suggest that anyone that agrees with him is an ignorant person. How does this statement make people that agree with him feel? Does this mean that you have never had a belief that is based on ignorance? Couldn’t you have gotten your point across without using the term ‘ignorant’?

God loves the ignorant.

‘An extremely intelligent, well-written response to the Duck Dynasty situation from someone who is Christian.

Contrasted with an incredibly dumb response by someone who regularly writes with self-indignant idiocy.’

This statement suggests that it is rare for a Christian to be intelligent and have composed thoughts. How do you think this statement comes across to Christians?

God loves unintelligent Christians.

‘Finally all of these homophobes’ dumb opinions aren’t being tolerated. About time. Beards but no brains.’

This statement suggests that people that believe homosexuality is a sin are homophobes and that if you are a homophobic you must not have a brain.

God loves homosexuals and homophobes.

‘A&E is apparently a bunch of bigots, since they say they support equality and tolerance for all’

Everyone that works for this company is a bigot. Do we really know all the conversations that took place prior to this decision? Do we really have enough information to make such a statement?

God loves bigots.

‘But are we really going to give him a martyr card for being fired from his second job while already a millionaire because he's an uneducated hick and his employer doesn't think a man liking another man is a prerequisite to f*cking a dog?’

Because he listed two sins in the same sentence he must believe that they are inherently related. If he had listed disobeying your parents instead, would that have been a prerequisite to spending too much time with a dog? What makes him an uneducated hick?

God loves uneducated hicks.

Liberal elites laughed & promoted Miley Cyrus’ twerking but suspend Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson… More proof the left doesn’t get it.

An apparent bias can be clearly attributed to a single group of people. No one from any other group has ever promoted a bias in thinking. This political party is clearly evil because I don’t understand their logic.

God loves liberals. God loves Miley Cyrus. Heck God even loves twerkers.

For God so loved the WORLD . . . everyone. I am far from perfect and I do not want anyone to ever think that I am ever promoting the notion that I am better than anyone of the people I quoted today. All I am saying is hate begets hate and love begets love. How do we expect a person to react when we say hurtful things about them?

So I will go out and buy my presents and try to love everyone I meet today, not because I am capable of doing so, or even because they deserve to be loved, but because God chose to love me before I deserved to be loved. I hope you do the same.

Until next we meet.