|dev|null wrote on Mar 14
th, 2016 at 1:34pm:
Yadda, do you describe yourself as a "Christian"?
Do you follow the tenants of the Christian religion 100% ALL of the time?
Just wonderin' how you justify your hatred of Muslims, in the face of Christ's command to "love thy neighbour"...
Me, a "Christian" ?
'Christian' is such pejorative term today, don't you think ?
I mean, just ask any moslem or political leftist or journalist or media 'personality' or 'man in the street'!
But dev|null,
If there is a God, do you believe that God is very concerned with how i 'label' myself ?
For example, if i 'labeled' myself as a 'moslem', do you believe that God would be very impressed ?
QUESTION;What did Paul/scripture suggest, about those who were concerned, with being 'recognised' as being a 'Jew' ? [....i.e. concerned about their social/cultural status]
Romans 2:28
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
LOVE THY NEIGHBOURMatthew 5:43
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
I am at peace.
I try to treat everyone i meet, in the same way.
Without prejudice.
Dictionary;
prejudice = = preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. unjust behaviour formed on such a basis.The word prejudice implies
pre-judging some issue/person, .....
while being in a condition of ignorance.
But, if i should come to certainly know that someone [or some group of people] holds a malicious, and a criminal, and a violent intent, towards myself, and/or towards those i care about, .....then my
conviction is, that i will be justified, in trying to frustrate their intent.
"Conviction is the art of being certain"
the current sig line of NorthOfNorth, helian.
Because if i were to silently allow such a malicious and a criminal intent to flourish, ....i would to judged [by my own conscience] to be complicit, with those who were seeking to destroy the general peace [of society], which surrounds me.
And that would be a very irrational, and insane position to support, imo.
And that [my] complicity would be a serious crime, imo.
FURTHER;How can i say that i love God, and love my neighbour,
....if i choose to be silent, and to tolerate and sanction the criminal intentions of moslems, in their intentions of murder, deceit, and intimidation, in the pursuit of their malicious and criminal aims ?
But, in saying that;
If i could see, that to obey the law, were my enemy's clear intent, .....and if my enemy did not display any intent, of murder, deceit, and intimidation, then i will love him as i would love all other men.
But i did not find that man.
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IMAGE....
"Behead those who insult ISLAM"
Islamic Protest -
IN AUSTRALIA - on the streets of Sydney from Hyde Park to George Streets, September 15, 2012.
"Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise):
they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain:...."
Koran 9.111
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