So I am at work this afternoon out front taking a smoke break with 2 of my employees.

[TigressDem]

38. You are correct. We ALL can have good thoughts for others.

Do you hate Christians for having their beliefs?

Probably not.

I hear that you are reacting to being treated disrespectfully, because I have had friends and co-workers that have shared their points of view and I've listened.

These ladies didn't REALLY listen. You and your friend weren't HEARD.

I'm mostly saying they are basically clueless and trying to exit as gracefully as they know how, to say they do have good thoughts from their own perspective.

BUT having been around so many people of different beliefs and non-believers who I find to be just people who have ways they prefer to be understood and respected, I realize there is MORE to this kind of interaction than MOST Christians understand because they CAN have BLINDERS and EAR MUFFS on that keep them in a certain train of thought.

IF I had been WITH YOU at that interaction, I would have CRINGED with you guys.


THEN I would have followed the women and explained to them as a "fellow Christian" that what they said was disrespectful even if they didn't mean it that way.


I wish all Christians could meet and really get to know people of other ways of thought. It expands your world view.

Some Christians are threatened by that, others just wish you well and move on.



I personally feel that other people's opinion of me is none of my business.

It's THEIR opinion and they can take it home with them, I'm not going to pick it up and cart it off, especially if it smells like dog doo to me.


Just saying, you can BE the Peace whether you are Christian, Muslim, Atheist, Druid or Wiccan.


OR you can TAKE offense at everything others say and let them rent space in your brain.


It's up to you.


I just know I don't have time to worry about what others think of me.

I spend my time doing what I need to and moving on from weird situations I have no control over.


I just wish we could all get along.


Good people are good people.


Period.

And you are here on DU, Eko. So you're pretty good in my book.