Refusing to be offended is part of our call as Christians, a call which, I for one, too often fail to heed. I'm often so busy being religious that I fail to be Christian. We need to take our cue (and our orders) from our Lord:
[Jesus said:] “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous." (Matthew 5:43-45)See David Wayne's fantastic post and the pieces to which he links.
I think the main point is that we will be rejected by the world. That is a characteristic of following Jesus. What a "celebrity" says is probably not anything but to gain notoriety for themselves anyway, no matter what they say so I never pay any attention to them.
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