Edd's Gatherin' Place

Reading my favorite Blogs this morning, a post by La Shawn Barber, Question Of The Day: Should Christians Have Anything To Do With Ann Coulter? struck a cord as how do we react to those with whom we truly have a difference of opinion. Ann Coulter is a very feminist and outspoken critic of the political left (Democrats). Even I do not always agree with her opinions but admire her for telling it how she sees it.

The following is my take on La Shawn Barber’s post and the comment made in response to the original question:

Should Christians have anything to do with Ann Coulter?

One could extend the question should Christians have anything to do with someone they may disagree with or simply do not like – George W. Bush, John Kerry, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, the Dixie Chicks, or for that matter the late Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, etc.

Martin Luther once said, “Of Discord,” "When two goats meet upon a narrow bridge over deep water, how do they behave? Neither of them can turn back again, neither can pass the other, because the bridge is too narrow; if they should thrust one another, they might both fall into the water and be drowned; nature, then, has taught them, that if the one lays down and permits the other to go over him, both remain without hurt. Even so people should rather endure to be trod upon, than to fall into debate and discord with another."

Oh, how I wish it could be so in our present day and time.