Today’s Doctrine holders always take a high ground that assumes their beliefs are the only truth and measure. Questioning that assurance will only result in anger, dogma, or the questioning of your question.
One simple way to find an answer is to compare their beliefs with those of people whose actions and convictions we respect:
“Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color” — Frederick Douglass
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” — Mother Teresa
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ” — Dalai Lama
“I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” — Malcolm X
These beliefs cannot be reinterpreted; because their statement is unequivocal:
“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.” — Abraham Lincoln
But Doctrine holders twist these principles backwards upon themselves; declaring that only by a policy of conditional worth, can equality be achieved; only by submitting to discriminatory policies, can society be saved; and that evil must be sown, so that good will grow out of it.
And they claim all this is being done in the names of those who would be appalled, saddened, and outraged at being used to give legitimacy to these actions; so contrary to what they stood, fought, and died for — a world where there is room for all; but never room for bigotry and discrimination.
The choice is a simple one, but it’s not easy:
Doctrine holders will seek to turn you with their endlessly insisting claims and assumption of a higher good; delivered with all the irrational rationalizing of extracting gold from seawater, and with the sly temptations of a doctrine that guarantees individual profit without individual responsibility.
And if you can’t be turned; there is force:
The force of iniquitous laws.
The force of ridicule.
The force of isolation for your views.
And Hate.
HATE-HATE-HATE-HATE-HATE
A bone-crushing, concentration camp filling Hate.
But take comfort in knowing that it is YOU who are following in the footsteps of compassion; it is YOU who are carrying on the fight for equality and human worth; and know that all the abuse and injury suffered by you is no different from that suffered by those before you; from much the same people, and in the same cause.
For your enemies are like wolves in shepherd’s clothing — and woe to the foolish sheep who follow them.