Friday; January 10
When I was a child I was taught that there were two things you didn’t talk about: politics and religion. These were two areas of life that people held to passionately and discussing them was apt to lead to hard feelings. Well, those were the olden days and the idea of not discussing politics flew out the window a long ways back. It has become cool to not only wear our political philosophies on our sleeves, but to be aggressive in expressing them with anyone and everyone. Unfortunately, I know too many relationships that have been strained (or even avoided) because of political differences. So, that leave us with religion. Do we still avoid discussing religion to keep from upsetting people? If so, that’s a shame. You see, the problem with discussing religion isn’t the topic, it is the temperature. Too often, our religious convictions are so ingrained in us that we can’t have a calm conversation. Like I said, that’s a s...