07-30-2007

Truth is Relaxed

By Renae

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While scanning websites my comfortable-being-at-home self has been assaulted by some rather harsh protests. I have stumbled upon revolts from every side of the proverbial fence. Liberals scream. Conservatives rant. Atheists scoff. Christians boycott. Why all the pandemonium? It seems that our society has become accustomed to fighting.

I understand how riveting ideas can captivate us. In high school and college I was so full of zeal that I burned a few friendships. As I tried my hardest to point out the fallacy of a classmate’s thinking, I don’t think he knew my motivation was love. My vehemence drove him away from my ideas not towards them. There is a place and time for confrontation. Can it be done without uproar and divisiveness?

School of the Bible teacher, Larry Allen, told us, “Truth is relaxed.” He did not mean that truth isn’t passionate. It is, and the more you know the more passionate you will become. Passion however doesn’t have to be hostile. I know we will never all agree but we can refrain from killing each other with words. We can win the argument yet still lose. I echo Ravi Zacharias; “People are more important than ideas.” The intrinsic value of individuals impels us to at least attempt patience.


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4 Comments

  1. tribeofautodidacts 07-31-2007, 4:31 pm

    EXCELLENT post! :-)

  2. connie 07-31-2007, 7:00 pm

    That stumbledupon website is fun! but I didn’t see people arguing. Maybe I was in a different part of the site than you were?

  3. Renae 07-31-2007, 8:25 pm

    Connie,
    I was “stumbling” through sites about rights and liberties. One in particular was about defending the Constitution while adamantly opposing the opening of a creation museum. Isn’t free speech in the Constitution? I wasn’t up for the whole creation vs. evolution debate so I didn’t link to the site. Maybe I will in the future.

    Anyway, reading so many opposing views led me to think about how to have conversations when we disagree, hence this post.

  4. D. Ox 08-4-2007, 7:14 pm

    Lovely blog! Welcome to “Conservative America” at Bumpzee. By all means, feel free to leave a comment or link to your posts you want to promote either at “Dumb Ox Daily News” or (on relationships) at “Ox …After Dark”!
    All the best,
    Tom (a.k.a. Dumb)

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