Negativity

It seems the following actions now constitute “negativity” in our culture.

• Staying on topic
• Having supporting evidence for an opinion
• Clearly interpreting Scripture (culturally, historically, grammatically)
• The use of logic
• Appealing to primary sources when secondary sources are wrong
• Opposing the popular party line
• Opposing anything at all
• Concluding something from a person’s actions, words, and history
• Reading historical accounts with a different view than the party line
• The bible
• Christ of the bible (as opposed to the false, Hippie Jesus society has rallied behind)
• Trinitarianism—especially clearly defined and supported biblically
• Consistency in beliefs
• Criticism (even when constructive)
• Exclusive claims (John 14:6)
• Reading what people write instead of reading their (alleged) thoughts
• Writing instead of “talking it out” (and when that fails, phone calls are more negative than meeting in person)
• Disagreeing with someone
• Calling out errors (in any manner, on any subject)
• Calling sin “sin”
• Failing to acknowledge another belief as “possibly” true
• Absolute truth
• Carefully denoting similar (but still different) opinions

I’m sure there are more, but this is my present realization.

I thought you should know, just in case you were interested in having a deep conversation about… well, anything at all with anyone at all.