Love this group, even though I don't post much.

that don't post here. I like that this group takes the high road for the most part.

You are a great DU member, a wonderful participant in this group and the religion group and have functioned exceptionally as a host of this group. Your decisions have been thoughtful and, imo, correct.

My advice to you is to move along when you are being personally attacked, justin. You know who you are.

It's amazing how people have gotten caught up in this, and it's truly polarized DU. It really is getting to the point of "You're either with us or against us."

And, just now, I tried to point out the problems with mocking versus criticizing, though it appears to be falling on closed ears. I'm going out for the evening, so if anyone wants to try and get my already overly-written point across, then be my guest

Being neither a Christian nor the type that takes any "scripture" as infallible, I nonetheless find certain Bible passages reverberating as I try to make sense of encounters with what seems like evil. Of course one can immediately dismiss this commandment with a line like "either Hitler or Stalin would have taken over the world if people didn't resist evil." And yet, there is an aspect of divisiveness and negativity that resistance can only feed. Benign neglect doesn't seem to be appropriate either, so putting out positive messages feels like the right approach. Hence, I found this passage from the UU webpage inspirational:

From a practical POV, in a country that is about 90% theist, it's a recipe for political suicide for the Democratic Party to become associated with militant mockery of all religion. From a spiritual POV, for a minority of a 10% or less minority to blame and insult 90% of the US population (or more than 80% of the world population) over murders perpetrated by three people in Europe seems like a contagious infection of toxic memes. But repeating those memes, even to refute them, seems to just help spread them. So-- hugs to all who are pondering the current situation and trying to come up with positive responses to a tsunami of stereotyping and scapegoating.

No more giving in. My place is here posting.

I think despite the complaints of others, we do a great job.

And welcome back! Glad your break was a short one.

Being in the shadows is not for me. If I need a. Break it should be unannounced and short.