What if those people who are different from you aren't part of some nefarious "Communist" conspiracy, but are just people in a free country who are [heaven forefend!] different from you?
I love it. But I think you're missing one part - a great deal of the reasons they get into other people's business is because they have the sacred permission of their God to do so. No reason can ever get in they way of the righteous. Not when your soul is on the line. Until that fundamental (←see what I did there?) fact is altered, this tension will exist here and everywhere else in the world it exists.
You can argue that it's not a religious problem, but in my opinion and my observation that would be ignoring great swaths of evidence.
I also love the reframing of government assistance as “neighborliness” instead of communism. As someone who travelled in the Soviet Union in the 1980’s, these folks wouldn’t know communism if it came up and introduced itself.
I would have voted for Harris with any of the likely VP candidates, but Walz won me with “Mind your own damn business!” It tickles my independent Oregon soul.
Perfect, Seth. This is great.
I love it. But I think you're missing one part - a great deal of the reasons they get into other people's business is because they have the sacred permission of their God to do so. No reason can ever get in they way of the righteous. Not when your soul is on the line. Until that fundamental (←see what I did there?) fact is altered, this tension will exist here and everywhere else in the world it exists.
You can argue that it's not a religious problem, but in my opinion and my observation that would be ignoring great swaths of evidence.
I also love the reframing of government assistance as “neighborliness” instead of communism. As someone who travelled in the Soviet Union in the 1980’s, these folks wouldn’t know communism if it came up and introduced itself.
I would have voted for Harris with any of the likely VP candidates, but Walz won me with “Mind your own damn business!” It tickles my independent Oregon soul.