Attack positions, not people.
When you mock a politician’s ethnic heritage, manner of speaking, or even the way they laugh, you come off more like a middle school bully than someone who has a grasp of the actual issues at hand. It makes you look mean and petty, and implies that you cannot make an actual reasoned argument, so you have to resort to ad hominem attacks.
Every human being, no matter how out there their ideology may be, is a soul bearing the imago Dei, the image of God, and an individual for whom Christ died.
Christians, above all, should recognize this and act, live, talk, and write accordingly. No matter how much others lower the level of discourse, we should raise it.
Preachers who are reading this: you don’t appreciate it when people take one phrase or sentence out of your sermon and use it to imply you said something you weren’t really trying to say. Show others the same courtesy you want people to show you, regardless of how vehemently you disagree with them on issues and ideologies.
Christ calls us to a higher way.
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