Politically Homeless, An Awakening.
Dwight Jeffress, Updated Jul 1, 2019 Re-post from FB, some months ago. Long post... some rabbit holes, and some reflections - apologies. I wouldn't blame you if you kept scrolling. Ahhh... another one I debated about posting... but I find so much in common with the author of this opinion piece. Politically homeless... yeah, that could describe me... but in a sense, after being a die-hard conservative Republican for almost 20 years I think personally I have found unequivocal freedom in abandoning it, well sort of. It will most likely continue to form the basis of some of my belief system for the rest of my life simply because of the influence it once had. To be able to now “take the blinders” off and see other perspectives, and not to tune out other opinions, as well as see merit in another way of belief, is freeing... in short, a liberation of the mind. I found this also with abandoning contemporary Christian institutional religion, walking away from that community allowed...