Thread by @Joeinblack

Earlier, I posted a tweet about the pain many of my parishioners have endured mourning their sick or dying family without being able to be present.
I posted it as a response to yet another video of tens of thousands of people gathering in protest.

The responses shocked me: lots of retweets & favorites, some death threats, even numerous notifications that people were attempting to access my passwords.
Some people politely disagreed, some people not so much.
Some people exuberantly agreed, others obnoxiously so.

I’m deleting it now because of the violence that’s begun to seep into the responses: people actually threatening each other.
At some point, if we don’t figure out how to disagree and dialogue, our Republic will die.

You are not going to change anyone’s mind by calling them stupid, you’re not going to change anyone’s mind by attacking them.
Reason, humility & a conviction that human dignity is the highest good the only way for us to find peace with each other, even if we disagree.

We better grow up quick or we will all be lost to this violence.
Not everyone who disagrees with you is evil.
Everyone who agrees with you is not necessarily good.

*Less important than all of that is this: many of us need to work on our spelling and grammar.