Yes, and love does not mean "let them walk all over you." Jesus told his disciples to sell their cloak and buy a sword. Jesus flipped over the tables of the money lenders in the temple. Jesus was not a pacifist.
Jesus flipped over the tables of the money lenders in the temple.
Thus literally bankrupting them. Bankrupt comes from the Italian phrase banca rotta "broken table"-- in the old days, when a banker/moneylender was corrupt or went broke, the town authorities would walk up to their table and physically break it.
Even I know this and I'm not religious in the slightest, but honestly, nothing against Christians, this is why I don't live by easily manipulated principles. I live my life by very simple self-defence philosophy of the non-aggression principle for the most part. Leave me alone to develop my games and I'll be happy, yet amazingly there are still people extremely determined to even interfere with that in any faction. They want control over you and your thoughts, they are not nice people.
Which is why we're hated. Having standards and holding yourself and others to them is hateful to those who want to wallow in their own filth and be loved for it.
And it's not like we can perfectly achieve those standards anyway. The point is that we keep moving forward and grow as people, even if we keep falling short on the way.
Many of our enlightenment values are a continuation of Christianity and what came before. If the bible was too easy to interpret, it would lack depth or wouldn't persist across millennia. I don't agree with the parts that seem to be authoritarian social engineering, but I've learned to be very dismissive of malicious caricatures of the religion. Most of the bible isn't up to flimsy, wildly divergent interpretation.
Yes, and love does not mean "let them walk all over you." Jesus told his disciples to sell their cloak and buy a sword. Jesus flipped over the tables of the money lenders in the temple. Jesus was not a pacifist.
Thus literally bankrupting them. Bankrupt comes from the Italian phrase banca rotta "broken table"-- in the old days, when a banker/moneylender was corrupt or went broke, the town authorities would walk up to their table and physically break it.
Hell, Jesus occupied the temple with armed followers. Jesus was more of an insurrectionist than the Jan 6'ers.
Even I know this and I'm not religious in the slightest, but honestly, nothing against Christians, this is why I don't live by easily manipulated principles. I live my life by very simple self-defence philosophy of the non-aggression principle for the most part. Leave me alone to develop my games and I'll be happy, yet amazingly there are still people extremely determined to even interfere with that in any faction. They want control over you and your thoughts, they are not nice people.
I'm not sure what you mean "easily manipulated prinicipals" real Christians have pretty rigid principals
Which is why we're hated. Having standards and holding yourself and others to them is hateful to those who want to wallow in their own filth and be loved for it.
And it's not like we can perfectly achieve those standards anyway. The point is that we keep moving forward and grow as people, even if we keep falling short on the way.
Exactly, Jesus told us we'd be hated because of that
Many of our enlightenment values are a continuation of Christianity and what came before. If the bible was too easy to interpret, it would lack depth or wouldn't persist across millennia. I don't agree with the parts that seem to be authoritarian social engineering, but I've learned to be very dismissive of malicious caricatures of the religion. Most of the bible isn't up to flimsy, wildly divergent interpretation.