Moving Beyond Accusations of "Hate" to Genuinely Getting Along . . .

If a friend, a relative, or even a stranger, in spite of anatomy, proclaimed his arms to be wings and boldly declared that he is a bird; I’d still be nice to him.  I wouldn’t be mean to him, and I sure wouldn’t “hate” him.

However, I wouldn’t agree with him.  Would you?

Perhaps our 21 Century culture needs to step back from some of the rhetoric of accusing each other of “hate” and recognize that disagreement does not define hatred.  In our contemporary society, we will always disagree with and maybe even disapprove of certain aspects of each others lifestyles, but we don’t have to be unkind to each other.  True love is greater than mere agreement.

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