Disagreement Is Not An Existential Threat

Stop living in fantasy land

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Want to know if someone is emotionally healthy?

See how they handle criticism.

It is often a sign of emotional fragility or psychological dysfunction when someone treats every disagreement as a personal attack or existential threat.

Today, when it comes to socio-political-cultural discourse in America (and in the West in general)…

We’re living in an Age of Emotional Fragility and Psychological Dysfunction.

One of the biggest ways this plays out is when people interpret any pushback as persecution or any critique as attempted erasure.

Let me spell this out clearly:

Disagreement is not violence. Criticism is not oppression.

I’ll use something near and dear to my heart to illustrate this, and that is my faith. I’m a Christian. Not a nominal Christian, but a committed, Bible-believing Christian serving in full-time ministry.

And yet…

Social media and platforms like this are full of angry (usually unfair) denunciations of Christianity and those who call themselves Christians.