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When Did Compassion Become Partisan Politics?
http://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/02/19/when-did-compassion-become-partisan-politics/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=John+Pavlovitz&utm_content=When+Did+Compassion+Become+Partisan+Politics%3FWhen Did Compassion Become Partisan Politics?
February 19, 2017 / John Pavlovitz
Credit: New York Times / Redux / eyevine
A professed Christian Tweeted the following at me last night:
Bro, I respect you, but serious question: are you on the DNC payroll?
After I let him know that if he indeed respected me he probably wouldn’t have asked that “serious” question to begin with, he replied that he was concerned that I was just repeating “Democratic talking points.”
I asked him to think about why he felt that way, realizing that he’d fully exposed the problem in his initial 140 characters.
His comments were telling, because they illustrate exactly what has happened in America over the course of the Presidential campaign, the election, and the first weeks of Trump’s Administration: Republicans have so lost the plot, that affirming anything remotely compassionate or decent now feels like a political stance against them. Empathy seems like an act of defiant resistance—and in many ways, it now is.
Advocating for sanctuary for refugees,
Protecting immigrants from Government harassment,
Marching for full equality for women,
Demanding affordable healthcare for every human being,
Affirming religious freedom for all traditions,
Fighting the degradation of our planet and the gutting of our public schools,
Defending our Press so that it remains free,
Championing the vulnerable, the sick, the poor—
These have somehow become partisan politics. And the simple reason is because the leadership of the Republican party have sold their souls and no longer care to be burdened by the heart of Jesus, or the basic goodness he preached.
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As for me: I know where my heart is, I know where my loyalties lay, and I know that I can sleep at night because I know that love is a nonpartisan decision and I am choosing it.
You can call it political all you want, but I know it’s the most spiritual declaration I’ve ever made. It is a declaration of Life.
#StillShePersisted
#TheResistance
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