How much time should we spend proving we're on the righteous side?

It seems like vanity to me, to spend time every day trying to make the case that you have it right on this issue or that.

What good fruit does it bear?

How does it encourage others to flourish in their faith?

For all the time that is spent seeing the fault in another could be used instead to meet their immediate needs.

I'm friends with an older gentleman at church who always needs help with technology, and I'm always happy to give him my time and attention. He couldn't be more opposite me on the political spectrum, but he was a trombonist in the Army Band and has an interest in cars and photography.

The man just wants to be able to watch his Tubi, Fox News and Newsmax. And I can help him with that. I want to help him with that. Dedicating time and using one's skillset to meet someone else's needs are acts of worship, as the early church exemplified in Acts.

Yet I can't help but contemplate how what media he consumes, what political beliefs he has, would define his human worth.

My assumption is that if he or someone like him was active on this sub, he would not be welcome. Because to be welcome on this sub, I've observed, is to be on the righteous side. Some say the righteous side is straight orthodoxy, tradition, biblical inerrancy, normalcy, and -- dare I say -- conservatism. Others would insist that the righteous side is justice, equality, biblical inspiration, progression, and liberation -- the "liberal" side.

The liberal side would chide and bemoan my friend for standing against everything they believe in. And they'd say, "No, it's not sinful, bigot," "You can't claim to outwardly love your neighbor because you think being homosexual is sinful," or "You're perpetuating harm"

The conservative side would applaud and support my friend. They would chime in with, "Hate the sin, love the sinner," "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," or "It's not the identity that's sinful, is the act".

So suddenly, this man, an otherwise ordinary man living by himself in his condo and who isn't all that tech-savy, becomes a pawn in the unending chess match to try and verbally checkmate the unrighteous side. And I can't help but wonder, how does this meet the everyday needs of the people in our offline lives?

Arguing what is already being argued can't fix a friend's TV, it can't pay for a stranger's meal, it can't clothe the homeless and it can barely tap the needle on theological/political issues.

So I would charge everyone who would read this thread to reflect on how much time you dedicate to making claims to people online, and to look more closely on where you can have a more immediate and direct impact on improving someone's life.