What are bullies? They are people who try to get you to do , or think, something they want, knowing that you do not want that same thing. The dictionary defines a bully as: “A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people”.
We might ask, “Is God a bully?” God wants us to do (or not) some things we would rather not do (or would rather do). The difference between God and bullies is that he created us and all the world around us. He gets to set what is right and wrong, what is fair and what is unfair. A bully did none of that. A bully intrudes into your world with demands. He did not create your world and has no right to make changes in it.
Sometimes a plane flies overhead. Many times you can see it. But sometimes you can’t. When you can hear one you know there is at least one person, the pilot, inside. Maybe there are more. The plane’s sound has some sort of dominance in your life. Is the plane’s pilot a bully? In some way the pilot is infringing on your life when you did not ask for it. However the pilot is not flying the plane for the purpose of infringing on your life or in any way to control you. Most likely he does not even know you. The pilot is not a bully; the bully would fly the plane for the purpose of annoying you.
What about the car playing loud booming music that is plainly heard in the cars driving about it. Is the driver a bully? I can’t imagine he does not know how loud it is and that all around him can hear it. I believe he is making a statement to everyone although no one has requested it. He is a bully.
