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Talk to people with whom you disagree.
Better: talk to really clever people with whom you profoundly disagree.
Better yet: talk to people who are cleverer than you AND who seem to be acting in good faith, but with whom you profoundly disagree.
Then do it again. & again.
Better: talk to really clever people with whom you profoundly disagree.
Better yet: talk to people who are cleverer than you AND who seem to be acting in good faith, but with whom you profoundly disagree.
Then do it again. & again.
That's how we learn.
That's how we test our ideas.
That's how we discover that not everyone who disagrees with us is stupid or morally abhorrent.
It doesn't mean that truth isn't truth. Very clever people of good will can still be very wrong. But let's hear them out.
That's how we test our ideas.
That's how we discover that not everyone who disagrees with us is stupid or morally abhorrent.
It doesn't mean that truth isn't truth. Very clever people of good will can still be very wrong. But let's hear them out.
We Christians are called to love our enemies. We're called to love people even if they're out to kill us – literally. We should be the first people eager to listen to opposing views & the last people willing to burn others at the ideological stake.
We must always be ready to give a reason for the hope that we have. But we must do that with gentleness & respect (1 Peter 3:15) not with anger & contempt.
