found online by Raymond
From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:
I am grieving for whatever in your story made you this way; for the painful path you must have walked to arrive here so fully wounded that you now feel so compelled to wound people.
My heart breaks for a journey so filled with injury, that it has yielded someone that burdened by fear, that prone to vitriol, that easily manipulated into contempt for another human being whose pigmentation or nation of origin or image of God or income level may not match you own.
I wonder how someone with so many advantages and so much privilege, still manages to feel themselves oppressed, still imagines they are marginalized, still feels perpetually under siege.
And I’m sorry.
Bah. The people he’s addressing are grown-ups. They freely chose the path they’re on. To hell with them.
My sympathies are for the blacks and Indians blocked from voting, the gays and Hispanics feeling under threat or beaten up, the migrant families separated at the border, the people who die because they can’t get proper health insurance. The people who cheer for all that, or regard it as acceptable collateral damage for the sake of something else, can go screw themselves. I don’t give a shit why they feel the way they do.
I’m grieving for the desecration of truth, and abandonment of honesty and decency. I’m grieving for the loss of fair elections. I’m grieving for the death of representation for the majority. I’m grieving for the suppression of consent of the governed. I’m grieving for the destruction of our democratic republic by the rubes, dupes, and racist white nationalists brainwashed by their authoritarian leaders, Putin’s Puppet, and corporate greedheads.
There is no “walk of life” that excuses this. It is not even fair or internally consistent, so it’s no good regardless of the specifics of the immorality.