We see what hate does in life: it causes people to shoot children, take out those with different ideologies from themselves, burn property, destroy businesses, and fly airplanes into buildings.
Rage does not equal righteousness, because we are mad, lashing out is not an excused behavior. Screaming at someone because there is something about them you dislike is just acting out of hate. Being happy about the misfortunes of others is no different.
Small wonder God tells us to pray for our enemies, to forgive and be kind to those we dislike; if not, we could just as easily become the very thing we claim to hate.
Matthew 5:43-45
English Standard Version
“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 sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
How we react matters; let our motivation be love for those around us, even if they hate us.
@KellyJay saidFirst: What is love anyway? I want to know what love is.
We see what hate does in life: it causes people to shoot children, take out those with different ideologies from themselves, burn property, destroy businesses, and fly airplanes into buildings.
Rage does not equal righteousness, because we are mad, lashing out is not an excused behavior. Screaming at someone because there is something about them you dislike is just actin ...[text shortened]... just.
How we react matters; let our motivation be love for those around us, even if they hate us.
Second: Please stop including me in your grand assertions about what "we" do.
Third: Please also stop trotting out unverifiable assertions from the Christian tradition. Pretty words and fine cadences do not equal truth.
@Arkturos saidI will speak as I see fit, ignore me if you wish, but you don’t get to tell me what I can and cannot say!
First: What is love anyway? I want to know what love is.
Second: Please stop including me in your grand assertions about what "we" do.
Third: Please also stop trotting out unverifiable assertions from the Christian tradition. Pretty words and fine cadences do not equal truth.
The only perspective I have is Christian again ingore me, but silence me no, I do not think so.
Love has different versions, loving pizza, brotherly love friendship, romatic love, godly love where the one loved you always care for doing what is best for them, even at cost to yourself.
@KellyJay saidI should have added a godly type of love that is always coupled with action for the loved one.
I will speak as I see fit, ignore me if you wish, but you don’t get to tell me what I can and cannot say!
The only perspective I have is Christian again ingore me, but silence me no, I do not think so.
Love has different versions, loving pizza, brotherly love friendship, romatic love, godly love where the one loved you always care for doing what is best for them, even at cost to yourself.
@Arkturos saidYou don't get to control what other people post. (You can barely control your own posting).
First: What is love anyway? I want to know what love is.
Second: Please stop including me in your grand assertions about what "we" do.
Third: Please also stop trotting out unverifiable assertions from the Christian tradition. Pretty words and fine cadences do not equal truth.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke said🙂
You don't get to control what other people post. (You can barely control your own posting).
@Ghost-of-a-Duke saidI think you and I are similarly somewhat controlling, and tend to scold other people in the hope (or dare I say "with the expectation" ) that they will behave better or at least differently. 😉
You don't get to control what other people post. (You can barely control your own posting).
@KellyJay saidI did say "please" -- twice -- so perhaps we could say those were requests rather than commands. 😉
I will speak as I see fit, ignore me if you wish, but you don’t get to tell me what I can and cannot say!
This one goes out to KellyJay:
"Love's in Need of Love Today"
(from over half a century ago!)
@Ghost-of-a-Duke saidEven now I don't know whether you are secretly one of the moderators, or merely implying that you are one of them without really being one.
But the power lies with the Ghost...
I hope you would agree that false authority should be challenged, and that people who sometimes post in adversarial ways should recuse themselves from the role of moderator.
@Arkturos saidI am not a moderator. My power comes from a higher dimension.
Even now I don't know whether you are secretly one of the moderators, or merely implying that you are one of them without really being one.
I hope you would agree that false authority should be challenged, and that people who sometimes post in adversarial ways should recuse themselves from the role of moderator.