As the hymn says, “No one can serve Him and despise another.” I’ll not despise someone simply because their politics are wrong.
“As the hymn says, “No one can serve Him and despise another.” I’ll not despise someone simply because their politics are wrong.”
You’re not required to despise them. You are only required to see them for what they are, and to oppose them with all your will because they do Satan’s work. They are, to one degree or another, under his sway.
This is not solely a political disagreement, and it is certainly not one over which reasonable men can differ in good faith.
Evil always attacks good; that is its nature. The demonrats and leftards have been attacking and continue to attack everything good.
As St. John Chrysostom wrote, “He who is not angry, whereas he has cause to be, sins. For unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices; it fosters negligence, and incites not only the wicked but even the good to do wrong.”
When you treat demonrats and other leftists as you would want them to treat you—Wait. Isn’t that the Golden Rule?—you are displaying unreasonable patience.
The Golden Rule, properly applied, would require you to treat them as they would want to be treated **if** they were not blinded to the truth. Enabling is not kindness.
Do you think that demonrats who knowingly vote for politicians who support abortion on demand are in good with The Lord? How are they going to get back on the straight and narrow?
Whether you choose to deal with them with a show of patience, or with anger, it is incumbent upon you to see what they are, because that will help keep you safe from sophistry.