Also, while it's far from charitable to do this, I'm at a point now where if someone attempts to engage in proverbial hostage taking by threatening suicide, I just tell them to hurry up. Send yourself to hell if you've a mind to, otherwise shut up. I'm not wearing a goddamn mask ever again, and I don't care how many red wine lesbians toss themselves off a bridge because they can't tyrannize me and my family. To me that'd be a bonus.
It's an interesting theological point. On one hand, we're called to try and save our fellow man. On the other, Christ's own words included "go forth, and sin no more."
Permissiveness and so called tolerance, especially if elevated above being the vices they are into false virtues, are no better than just wallowing in evil.
And we're called to walk away from that. To reject the fallen world and to expect to be hated by it. Certainly if possible one should prevent another from committing suicide(something I've done more than once), but allowing oneself and civilization as a whole to be held hostage by demonic brinkmanship seems the true wrong.
Walking away from the determinedly damned, the gleefully wicked, is minimizing harm.
There's Xanax involved here, I'd guarantee it.
Also, while it's far from charitable to do this, I'm at a point now where if someone attempts to engage in proverbial hostage taking by threatening suicide, I just tell them to hurry up. Send yourself to hell if you've a mind to, otherwise shut up. I'm not wearing a goddamn mask ever again, and I don't care how many red wine lesbians toss themselves off a bridge because they can't tyrannize me and my family. To me that'd be a bonus.
Do a flip
Honestly, I think that is part of the reason why christianity has the whole "suicide is a guaranteed ticket to hell" thing.
It's an interesting theological point. On one hand, we're called to try and save our fellow man. On the other, Christ's own words included "go forth, and sin no more."
Permissiveness and so called tolerance, especially if elevated above being the vices they are into false virtues, are no better than just wallowing in evil.
And we're called to walk away from that. To reject the fallen world and to expect to be hated by it. Certainly if possible one should prevent another from committing suicide(something I've done more than once), but allowing oneself and civilization as a whole to be held hostage by demonic brinkmanship seems the true wrong.
Walking away from the determinedly damned, the gleefully wicked, is minimizing harm.
All these types of people who talk about Jesus and tolerance actively ignore all the times Jesus said "go forth, and SIN NO MORE"
I coined a term about ten years ago, to describe the general behavior of the left with regards to their emotional hostage taking.
Tyranny of the thin skinned.