Reply #11: There's also the point that this current Hell did NOT just happen all by itself. As much as I hate [View All]

[patrice]

it, this is "our" war and as much as I work hard to stand independently for what I know is right and true, I AM part of a collective known as America.

Though there are indeed much more guilty Major Actors than you or I, what is messed-up about our whole situation currently is what is messed-up about us too. And as much as I claim the right and responsibility to stand for what I know as right (something known in some quarters as "the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ") with the full strength of my conviction in that truth, I cannot claim that responsibility unless I yield it also to any honest others, different though they may be from me.

And IF they are honest, they must also yield the same right to stand for truth which they claim to me too, different though I may be from them, for either of us to do otherwise is not "a right" at all, but a privilege, something that I yield to no one and something I expect none others to yield to me.