Diserner
Well-known member
I fear that "niceness" sometimes gets equated with love.
There are forms of standing for the truth, that are just not going to seem fun and friendly.
Who here can read the prophets in the Bible decrying sin and projecting doom and count that as "nice"?
"Stop yelling at me about running the traffic, it's not nice and loving! You're too serious and I came to have fun!"
In our politically friendly and woke climate, speaking out becomes too big a threat to thought control, and everything confrontational is deemed hateful.
"If you say sexual deviancy is a sin, you are practicing hate speech, and not being polite and respectful and gentle and Christlike!"
"Jesus just preached love!"
Where is the balance between niceness and the Biblical warning to tell people the truth?
There are forms of standing for the truth, that are just not going to seem fun and friendly.
Who here can read the prophets in the Bible decrying sin and projecting doom and count that as "nice"?
"Stop yelling at me about running the traffic, it's not nice and loving! You're too serious and I came to have fun!"
In our politically friendly and woke climate, speaking out becomes too big a threat to thought control, and everything confrontational is deemed hateful.
"If you say sexual deviancy is a sin, you are practicing hate speech, and not being polite and respectful and gentle and Christlike!"
"Jesus just preached love!"
Where is the balance between niceness and the Biblical warning to tell people the truth?