Today’s Thought

Pre-Christian Behavior

Over the last couple of years or so, I’ve had various times to wonder why Christians insist (at times) on behaving in Christ-less manners.

  • Making someone else look bad
  • Undermining authority
  • Paying back spitefully what someone else did unwittingly
  • Spreading an evil report about another
  • Reacting viciously against contradiction or correction
  • Dishonoring parents
  • Belittling children
  • Returning evil for evil

That’s only the beginning of the list, of course. But why do Christians indulge that kind of behavior?

When I see it, I’m left feeling puzzled.

And (at times) angry or vindictive or hurt or depressed or scornful.

Which raises another question: Aren’t those also forms of pre-Christian behavior?

Borderline Perspectives

So here’s the story: Drug violence spins Mexico toward ‘civil war’.

And here’s the piece that provokes this post:

…the United States helps fuel the violence, not only by providing a ready market for illegal drugs, but also by supplying the vast majority of weapons used by drug gangs.

Victimhood in international relations — great.

How about an alternate rendition?

…the United States Mexico helps fuel the violence, not only by providing a ready market for illegal drugs weapons used by drug gangs, but also by supplying the vast majority of weapons used by drug gangs illegal drugs.

Interesting, no?

So…do I (and/or you) do this sort of thing in my our own communicating?

Above all, love God!
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