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.
It's been abused to pacify resistance from the Christians against leftist infiltration.
Its love thy NEIGHBOUR, not 'love thy stranger that you don't know and demands you pay them respect for existing'
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.