13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18 because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.
19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.
Eating the wrong type of food isn't a huge issue in the church, although the organic, anti-GMO vibe and an anti-PC push to avoid such gentrified fare can come into play.
The stumbling blocks that come into mind today are of racial issues and ditching names and monuments invoking racism of the past. For instance, Fort Bragg is named after a Confederate general and is likely to be renamed (over a presidential veto, but the votes are seemingly there). I didn't know that it was named after Braxton Bragg until the BLM vibe started to zoom in on all things Confederate and/or racist.
In my mind, it where the 82nd Airborne comes back to after serving in foreign conflicts. My first response is that the racial slight in the name isn't worth changing and that I don't want to spend the time remembering that Fort Powell (in this hypothetical, let's rename it for Colin to give a great Black general his due) used to be Fort Bragg.
However, 20% or so of the guys jumping out of planes there will be of African descent. I might not be all that peeved at the Bragg name, but they might well be, since it was their ancestors whose enslavement was being defended by General Bragg.
Going to a default anti-PC defense ("If the woke crowd wants it, we don't") isn't a good, godly attitude to have. That a modern food-dedicated-to-idols application.
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