You can't please everyone

Before we get started, please read the previous article, here; Take up your cross!, and please check out my latest on Locals; Coffee and Christianity: Episode 86: Why I'm skeptical of most "deconstruction" stories

“While he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in and sat at table. The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner. And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of extortion and wickedness. You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also? But give for alms those things which are within; and behold everything is clean with you.
But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues, and salutations in the market places. Woe to you! For you are like graves which are not seen, and men walk over them without knowing it”. (Luke 11:37-43).
You can't please everyone. “You're too religious”. “You're not religious enough” It's about relationship, not religion” (that's heresy, hYes, Christianity is a religion) . “You're forcing your morals on me”! “You can't legislate morality”, “Love is love” (yes, and water is wet), “my body, my choice” (and yet, you choose not to accept the consequences of your actions), “You're transphobic” (nonsense, transformers is an awesome franchise), “most people support gay marriage”, yes, and democracy, as useful as it is, doesn't legislate MY morality. And FYI, before our Supreme Court legislators forced gay marriage on us (OBERGEFELL v. HODGES), most US states voted against it (including California, California Proposition 8, Same-Sex Marriage Ban Initiative
Come to think of it, that's the OPPOSITE of democracy. Oh, and lest you think it's only liberals (and yes, the idea that religion is opposed to relationship is quite a liberal position), actual things I've heard from the other side of the theological spectrum, “Mother Teresa was a terrible person” (I actually have a book of verifiable Mother Teresa quotes, no she wasn't, and the best I can tell, that claim originated with atheists, and no, I will not capitalize “atheists”, unless it's at the start of a sentence). “Vatican II is invalid”, “There hasn't been a valid Pope since arbitrary Pope X”. There are people on this very site that will tell you to stay home from Mass and pray the rosary instead of going to the so called “Novus Ordo”. I'm not going to link to them because the last thing I need is to give heretics (and schismatics) publicity.
My point is, there are some people who thrive on the negative. Whether it is redefining words to change their meaning (like confusing religion with legalism, or thinking two people of the same sex can get “married”).
One thing remains true, you can't please everyone.
Luckily, while a lot off people seem to justify their sins by saying “only God can judge me”, I'm going to say, 1) That's exactly why you should be afraid, and, 2) ultimately, being a people pleaser, and going with whatever the current trends are, is going to backfire.
I'm much more worried about what God thinks.

Adam Charles Hovey is the founder of the Catholicism, News, and whatever community and host of the weekly Bible study, Coffee and Christianity

An addendum; I recently heard about the murder of Jonathan Joss (at this point, it does look like that's the correct word), and some people have claimed that he was killed because he was a homosexual. I don't know how true that is. However, what I do know, is that you can disagree with someone and not resort to violence. Murdering people is wrong, period. While I absolutely refuse to say he had a "husband" (as gay marriage is a legal fiction, there is no such thing in God's law), I also think it's wrong to, you know, murder people.

Rest in peace, Jonathan Joss.

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