It's easy to get really offended and angry at people who... get offended and angry at others -- i.e., I think 'you' treated others poorly in your facebook status, so I'm going to treat 'you' poorly in the comments. Perhaps there are places in life where something related to this is necessary (though you will never convince me of that regarding facebook), but... I believe very firmly that the only way to cultivate grace is through grace. I've simply never seen someone stop being angry and mean towards others by me getting angry and mean at them about it.

Regarding recent changes about taxes, social security, and higher costs for employers regarding health care -- just because something rises costs does not mean its wrong.  People made the same arguments when slavery was abolished (i.e., the government is destroying the economy), and to lesser extent in the 80's when immigration reforms happened (i.e., the economy would be hurt because companies would have to pay fair wages). Am I comparing the current stuff to those two situations? Not necessarily. I just want to see some more creative reasoning. 

I'm not sure how to say this without coming off as mean, or a know-it-all, but here it goes. I kindly request that my facebook friends who are sharing and posting the "God is not dead" meme/picture learn a bit more about what Nietzsche actually meant by that statement. What is being said in the three words this meme responds to ("God is dead") is insanely complex. Scholars have different opinions about what he actually meant. W hen that picture is posted as some sort of response to an 'atheistic world-view' it is responding to an argument is not really being made by the statement, "God is dead." Here is where the phrase first appeared, in the words of Neitzsche's 'madman': "God is dead. God remains dead. *And we have killed him*. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who wi...

It's easy to get really offended and angry at people who... get offended and angry at others -- i.e., I think 'you' treated others poorly in your status, so I'm going to treat 'you' poorly in the comments. Perhaps there are places in life where something related to this is necessary (though you will never convince me of that regarding Facebook), but... I believe very firmly that the only way to cultivate grace is through grace. I've simply never seen someone stop being angry and mean towards others by me getting angry and mean towards them about it.