Preachers and Naysayers get off your soap box.

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What gives *you* the right to say this? Haven't you ever heard of the first amendment---- or whichever one gives the right to free speech?
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The First Amendment protects citizens from having their right of expression restricted by the GOVERNMENT, and even then there are exceptions.

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It seems that with the advent of the internet everyone now has a voice that they think allows them to be outraged by the most meaningless things said or done by someone else.

Anything someone does is probably going to go against the morals or ethics of someone else.

Do they have the right to preach their brand of morality back at you?
Does someone else have the right to try and force what they believe to be good, right and proper on the rest of us, because we see the world differently?
Or, does this just show that person's lack of self esteem, confidence in themselves. When I see this behavior what I see is that the person preaching is uncomfortable with who and what they are. That's just me though.

What are your opinions?

Old saying "One man's poison is another man's food".

Your whining offends me.

Your whining about the OP's whining offends me.

Everyone is entitled to their opinions even if I don't happen to subscribe to what others may or may not believe. Given that the internet is a free market for soapboxes, I would just say that if you happen to disagree with what someone believes or doesn't believe, ignore it. Arguing about the differences isn't going to make someone change their minds.


When I was in high school, I was one of those kids who was always "preaching" for people to come to Jesus and get saved. While I felt that I was doing some good, I wasn't for the most part. People did come up to me later and say that they respected the way that I stood for my beliefs (even when other kids were throwing milk cartons and food and yelling mean stuff).

Later down the road, I realized that me harping on my fellow students wasn't going to make them change their life and love Jesus. It may make them angry or resentful, though. And that wasn't my intention...

Now, I still love Jesus and I talk to people about Him but only when the conversation permits it. I am not pushy. I am not trying to convert every person that I come across. I am hoping that my life will be an example of how Jesus would have treated people. Who knows.

I said all of that to say: People can say whatever they want, we don't have to agree with them and we certainly don't have to argue about it.

Stepping off of my soapbox now,
sam