E is for Everything and Everybody: A to Z Blogger Challenge 2018

I'm still playing BlogChallenge CatchUp.  Using the A2Z Blog Challenge Team prompt, here is the post I should have written Thursday....

E is for Everything and Everybody.

Everything and Everybody sounds all-inclusive.  Unfortunately I've yet to see anything or anybody truely all-inclusive.

Liberals say, "Be tolerant" of everything. Yet they don't tolerate a mindset or moral code different from their own. I'm not judging whether they are right or wrong.  I'm just sayin' they aren't as tolerant as they expect others to be.

But liberals aren't the only ones.

Christians say, "Come as you are--everybody is welcome." Then they teach change. Again, I'm not saying change is not warranted--I believe it is warranted.  But the desire to change comes from the conviction our spirit feels from the prompting of the Holy Spirit, not other people.

We say everything and everybody,  but we don't really believe in inclusiveness. That would mean the abolishment  of cliques and hierarchies.

It would mean I believed your way of thinking is just as good as mine.

It would also mean you belived my way of thinking is just as good as yours.  

I just don't see that happening.  I think what we really mean when we say everything and everybody, is:  everything and everybody--as long as they line up with what I believe.   

We may think we are inclusive, but we are not.  We may not mean to be judgemental. We may not even realize we are judgemental, but we are.

Will there ever be a day when E really is all-inclusive?  And do we really want it...