Intolerance

Heard from P that a certain miss has called her early in the morning and asked her not to attend an event that she will be organising.

I have never seen such intolerance towards a fellow human being. I was told that this miss (who certainly doesn't behave like one) is someone to keep a distance from. Her bad rep unfortunately precedes her, despite the apparent cordiality that she shows towards one and all, and the seemingly spiritual facade that she creates.

As truth be told, it is a facade. I just saw an ugly intolerant side of her that nullified all that she preached and believed in. The best part of the whole farce was that she even threw quotes at P about what P did - deemed as "objectionable", "lack of faith", etc etc.

To me, it just showed that this certain Miss doesn't tolerate differences in practices, views and takes things in a sensitive manner.

This is the first time in my life that I heard that trying to seek shelter from the rain is a direct rebellion against faith and God. Perhaps tantamount to breaking all commandments at one shot?

I tell you, if it's really true, the Lord would have sent a lightning bolt and burnt the supposed transgressor(s) to a crisp. On the spot. Then there would be no need for the certain Miss to take God's part to rant at someone who was just doing the logical thing at that point of time. And to think that she made a decision to bar P from attending future activities - perhaps seeing P as a challenge to her authority?!

I don't think there's a need to blow up such trivial matters. For those who know better, what the certain Miss is doing is ridiculous.

And bravo to P for keeping her cool and rising above it.

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Afternote:
Latest update was that P had to skip the event due to family commitments on same day. Met up with her and analysed the whole situation. Apparently the certain Miss had brushes with P over the years. So, all these problems were tinged with personal grudges as well.

The only way that to deal with folks like the certain Miss, who believed that they are God's spokespersons on earth (wah! even more powerful than the Pope...), would be to cut the moral high ground from them.

Their arguments would then have no leg to stand upon.

And that's real easy to do, because the certain Miss has none in the first place.

Then, you could deal with her, on a woman to woman basis. In which case, it is also easy to handle, because so long as she remains bigoted in her views, others will see her for what she is.

All that glitters is not gold. A scratch will reveal that it's just scrap metal underneath.