Why can't we just get along?


Some thoughts about the outcry over Mel Gibson's movie

I haven't seen the movie because it hasn't been released here, yet. But I'm following the controversy, even though such ranting rhetoric upsets my delicate constitution. Here's my position: It's easy to get caught up in mindless, hateful generalizations about a group of people you don't know or understand or with whom you have no relationship. But even if you knew personally just one or two individuals from that group, you would be much less likely to get caught up in the mob mentality. If Christians were building relationships with Jews and Muslims and Hindus, it would be a lot harder for us to distrust each other. And our lives would be so much richer.

Whatever you believe about sharing the gospel, you don't have a witness unless you have a relationship.

Here's a great article written by a Rabbi:

http://www.towardtradition.org/article_Passion_Feb_2004.htm. Feel free to pass this along.









Posted: Tue - February 17, 2004 at 08:12 PM      

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