General Discussion

In a kind of self defense, I decided last year to go out and learn who my neighbors were. I'd heard for years that this Florida community is Christian, so I took up a casual invitation to attend a bible study group, just to see if they're real or fake. What I've learned is that when or if they think about politics through the lens of christianity, it's complicated. Not for me, of course, but for them.

They can't spiritually discipline themselves from constantly thinking of God as backing the powerful and wealthy humans, even though they have read their bible and know better, that most of the Old and absolutely all of the New Testament say the opposite. They are believers who have to learn the hard way.

Then there are power and Mammon worshippers, whether they're amoral or moral, middle class or impoverished. They also have to learn the hard way, while they drag everyone else down 'til they hit bottom.

Both groups seem insufferable. I get it.
But as fellow Americans, we can't just slowly end up being like those we fight, those who "other" anyone not like them. Be always careful that as we fight who we see as monsters, that we don't become monsters ourselves. "A taste of their own medicine" mentality is a slippery slope mentality.