I’m shaking my head, still.
I posted a note on my FB wall from Thomas Merton:
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
It seems fairly intuitive and godly and loving. We should love others. Fin.
Some white Evangelical guy did not like the message and broke into my wall to state that “nowhere are we told we have to get the federal government to rob us to pay off the poor.”
I was puzzled at the interruption. Nothing in this image says that we are demanding the government to do anything. Just for us all, we should be kind and love people.
I deleted his post and said “Don’t post again or I’ll delete and block you.”
He did post again, on how my deleting his statement was going against his “free speech.”
So I deleted him again and blocked him.
I’m puzzled as to why this is something he thought was necessary and something he was free to do.
- I do not know him.
- We are not friends in real life or on social media.
- I told him not to do it again on my personal wall.
- He violated my request and upped the ante (from “I am bringing in an irrelevancy” to “I demand the right to speak over you”).
Not to say that #AllWhitePeople, but seriously, this was fatuous on his part. He didn’t communicate with me anything other than rudeness, ignorance, and insolence.
Win for him, I guess.
But in the long run, he alienates more and more people from his life.
Sad.
I don’t need to ask the question “Why?” I know why. I’m a white Evangelical male myself (although I think I’m going to translate my faith-label to “Confessional Reformed” from “Evangelical” due to the staining of the label made by people like this white guy). I know “from the inside” how we think like this.
It’s still just sad, because he is a leader in his Evangelical community, and he’s thinking reflexively and white-ly.