TEST: Beware cultural warriors

I like to go on Facebook a lot, and discuss various interesting topics with my many friends. I have noticed when I do post a comment, there are times when other people commenting to the thread express a great deal of hostility toward what I wrote. This is not a complaint. Instead, I shall provide an example of what constitutes the “cultural warrior.”

Someone who goes on record as declaring: The Democrats are a party of hatred and lies. The underlying statement behind that declaration? Just to let you know, I am a much better a person through my party affiliations than “they” will ever be. Thus, I ran a test just for that particular commenter. It goes as follows; “You are the owner of a mega agribusiness, one that comprises a thousand plus acres. You have cultivated your acreage, and finally you are getting ready to harvest your produce, and send it to market. But a fellow swings by your office with a BOOK in his hands. He opens up this BOOK and points to a specific PASSAGE within it, regarding your requirement to set aside a certain amount of your produce/profit, so that the poor in your community can gather it up to eat. What is presented to you as that farmer, is no less than a LAW.”

For anyone who claims the Holy Bible is the foundation for the U.S. Constitution and our laws or that this is a Christian nation, the above test should have been a piece of cake. “The gleaning of the fields” from which the above test was derived is found in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. But this particular commenter was so gung ho at the opportunity of donning her “cultural warrior” garb; she actually didn’t recognize the test for what it was. It is a law she would legally challenge — well then, I believe anyone would have the right to challenge the idea, that this is a Christian nation.

I don’t want to be forced to do anything through a man-made law — but I don’t mind forcing others to think the way I do. Oh you think you are morally superior — which was exactly your argument when you vented against the Democrats. I help other people because I WANT to. The Bible opines that if you don’t act charitably or even hospitably, there will be consequences. Doing the right thing is an obligation, not an option.

I shall go on record that the extremists are “cultural warriors.” I will not call them “right wing” or “conservative.” You actually have to operate on a set of principles to make that particular argument. The cultural warrior is at the least hypocritical, and at the worst, a person who easily makes a fool of him or herself.

JOAN E. HARMAN

Coeur d’Alene