Your Feelings; Your Problem

Human emotions are the most unreliable indicator this world can offer.

Our single greatest moral duty is obeying divine justice. That moral justice does not include a duty to consider someone’s feelings. You have no duty at all to my feelings, and vice versa. You have no duty to your own feelings, either. The tyranny of considering the feelings of others has done more to degrade the social fabric than almost any other negative factor you can name. It arises from the sheer nonsense that your feelings reflect anything of importance in themselves.

Your feelings are not you. They are merely the internal noise of your competing desires and commitments. Strong feelings are no more than an indicator of how morally weak you are.

Don’t raise the false dichotomy of the emotionless, cerebral human computer. There’s nothing wrong with expressing your emotions for the most part, but our society is founded on a horribly evil mythology that says the only way to escape the tyranny of feelings is to embrace cruelty. That’s simply giving the wrong feeling supremacy. You don’t have to be a berzerker warrior to conquer human weakness and silence your fears and guilt. Don’t buy the idiocy that you have to be either warm and caring or hateful and cruel.

In the Bible, warm and caring means I’ll share your pain but we both have a duty to God that supersedes all our feelings. God is most certainly not cruel, but He is surely inscrutable. His feelings were crystallized in the image of the Cross — He cares enough to pay the ultimate price for the demands of His own justice. From Genesis up through the last prophet, God showed that same caring warmth equally mixed in solution with His holiness. In Christ, He showed them as a living human person. It is only our human folly to separate the two.

So as your Internet Pastor, I’ll give you everything you need to handle your feelings, but I can’t do it for you. Truth is a lot more important than your feelings. If you confuse frankness with rudeness, you’ll never understand anything. If your definition of “nice” permits hiding the truth, you have a very serious problem. Yes, sometimes telling you that you aren’t ready to hear the truth is as much truth as you can handle. If you don’t accept the underlying epistemology, I owe you precious little. You can’t get inside by jumping the fence; I wasn’t the one who placed the only gate.

I’m left with warning you that if you don’t turn the sword of truth on yourself first, you can’t use it. I’ll show you what the sword is and where it is, but you have to pick it up. You have to run it through your own soul. If I have to do it for you, it will be for the purpose of keeping you at a distance, defending my mission against your assault. When such is the case, you cannot possibly understand what’s going on in the first place.

I will seem any number of evil things you despise, and I won’t spare your feelings at all.