For the record you have never come across as bitter and/or resentful.
Reminds me of the truth in this saying, "when pointing a finger at someone else, three fingers are pointing back to the person making the accusation."
Thanks, but you give me undue credit.
I think I have already shared with you that my father's generation were refugees from former Palestine, although they were not Arab by ancestry.
I have always been confronted by the hostility that many Western Christians have towards Arabs, Palestinians in particular.
In light of my families understanding of the plight of the Palestinians, these people appear quite insane.
They present themselves as mental patients, and not as ministers of the gospel of peace.
Their willingness to believe lies has become the excuse for many who wish to confirm themselves in unbelief.
Unbelievers pat themselves on the back, because they have not taken up the fanaticism and ignorance of the Christian Zionist.
Well, all of us have our families and all of us are subjected to both our own faults and the faults of others.
We hope for the forgiveness and patience of Christ, and are called to practice grace to others.
Trying to be a "good church boy" by maintaining a plastic silence has not worked for me spiritually, and I would emphasize the need to find a voice.
I would suggest that we are as free as we need to be to hate evil powers, but we should never do so at the expense of loving others.
I can not pretend that I have always lived up to this aspiration.