It simplifies things when we can write-off the thoughts and opinions of other people by assuming they've taken the easy way out, that they're just trying to be popular and liked. It's oddly affirming to tell ourselves that we're the ones living counter-culturally, we're the ones taking all the risks for the truth, we're the ones getting persecuted for our right and true beliefs. And it's a bit disconcerting to confront the reality that it's possible to wrestle with the same God and walk with the same limp and yet reach different conclusions. Perhaps it is in the wrestling itself that we can find some common ground.
-- Rachel Held Evans, "The thing I'd love to forget about the people I disagree with"
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