This may come as a shock to my readers but I don’t actually believe I have all the answers. I don’t believe there is one right way to live.

I do believe that everyone needs the God of Abraham and that every knee shall bow and proclaim that Jesus is the Christ but aside from that I’m actually fairly flexible.

I do believe there is such a thing as bat crap crazy as demonstrated here and here but *most* people aren’t in that extreme and I recognize most of us are just struggling to get through life as best we can, all of us facing an inevitable death.

Despite the fact that I rage against iniquity on this, my rant blog, I don’t really do that in real life. I have another blog that’s nice. Home cooked recipes and home school advice. I play nice with others for the most part and I really do try to follow Christ’s example although I’m incredibly over opinionated (can ya tell?)

So it is always with dismay that I end up in these weird facebook arguments over my lifestyle choices.

I could care less if people want to vaccinate their kids, use public schooling or give birth in a hospital. Different strokes.

Just because I don’t vaccinate, I home school and I give birth at home isn’t a criticism in and of itself of the alternative. Why can’t people simply allow me my non mainstream opinion and leave me be? Why does it effect them? My choices really don’t.

So yesterday I criticized chemotherapy on facebook. I don’t really believe in chemo for myself (others do as you please). Hey, that’s my choice. My biological mother literally died of her chemo, not her cancer. I’ve looked at the evidence like this, this and this and I’ve decided that, with few cancers in exception, I most likely would never get chemo.

Big friggin’ deal.

Only what I said was read by an old friend of mine whose wife is a chemo researcher.

Good great for her, but why do I HAVE to buy or support her product?

You see, it isn’t enough for the Left to have their own opinions or investments. They want to SHUT DOWN and censor anyone who thinks to, or does, the contrary.

My husband works at a Church owned store. I don’t give a flying flip if someone said they didn’t like the stuff at his store and wouldn’t buy their products.

I care ‘cos of why?

My friend cares about my not wanting chemo in the highly unlikely event that I get cancer someday ‘cos of why?

But he couldn’t just say, “I respectfully don’t agree” No, he had to LAY into me with all the venom, hate and a-hem “tolerance” of his ilk. You see he’s a liberal, progressive, snooty lawyer with a private practice living in an upscale area on the east coast with his doctor wife and no children. He thinks he is better and smarter than silly ole stay-at-home moms like me.

He didn’t choose to debate me either. I love debate. Bring it on!

Nope he just hurled insults because, ya know, that’s what grown up smart men with private law practices do.

Here’s a few gems….

“u are losing ur mind”

“I have no use for folks…who live worthless lives.”

“Do something useful or go drown yourself.”

“…those who lack value must be cast aside.”

“…I take issue with the assumption that all people have intrinsic worth. I have met many who do not and I have no time for them.”

Yeah.

And let’s stop and think for a second that despite the fact that he’s a lawyer I have just as much schooling as he does, albeit in a different subject, seeing as how I have a Master’s degree and he knows this.

So, if this is what he thinks of ME simply because I don’t agree with his wife’s job then what on earth must he think of people who don’t have degrees (for shame!)?

This is why I don’t even like to tell people I HAVE a degree. Because East/West coast academic, liberal, ivory tower, elitists like this actually DO think they are better than common folk and I’m not like that.

I didn’t earn a degree so I could whip it out and make people feel stupid. I spent 5 years in college. Just about any other use of time is just as valid, whether someone spent 5 years working as an auto mechanic, a mother, a teacher, or a bus driver.

But most college grads don’t feel that way. They DID go to college to prove they are better than you and they mean to use their superiorness to control you.

And make no mistake, they want to take away our rights. They want to use their “superior” ideas and brains to force us BY LAW to conform to what THEY think we should do.

Whether that’s buy healthcare (which is where this particular argument had it’s roots), put our children in public school, take away church’s tax free statuses for expressing their free speech rights, or force us to preform abortions or gay marriages against our will, etc.

Oh my lawyer friend will take his client’s money (he’s a criminal defense lawyer) and he’ll give them a proper defense but in the end of the day he doesn’t value them. He takes the money from people he considers beneath him and pads his house, his bank account, and his children’s private education all while advocating and voting against the civil liberties and free speech of others.

Iniquity.

And after all that. I told him. “I love you like a brother. We don’t have to fight simply because we disagree.” And I said that NOT because I’m better than him but because I am weak, I am a sinner but I am redeemed in my Savior.