i posted this on a message board i frequent in response to a post about the pope's unfortunate comments about muslims. it's mostly a bunch of clergy who post, but sometimes non-clergy types add their two cents.
i think i'm a bit upset. you be the judge...
what did jesus mean when he said we were to love our enemies? what about loving our neighbors?
i feel a little like rodney king: can't we all just get along?
and moderate muslims are doing exactly what many moderate christians do... say nothing when people die of starvation or are oppressed. i don't think it mattered what the pope intended or the fact that extremists were going to take it wrong... what matters is how we treat people who would do us harm. and it's not about being careful that we don't offend them in case they use it as an excuse to hurt us... it's about loving our enemies... speaking a word of love.
and what really gets me... we are supposed to be the ones speaking the word of love... no matter what. there are enough people out there preaching hate and hurt that the word of love is losing its potency and its power and too many christians are too silent about it because we are afraid or angry or intolerant.
and i'm tired of the silence and the fear and the anger and the intolerance. i'm tired of arguments like this one. the pope said the wrong thing, not because it pissed off some muslim people, but because it wasn't a word of love and his job, his calling, just like ours is to make sure that word is never silenced or left unheard.
God's peace y'all
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I'm looking forward to the apology to gays and feminists, myself.
*crickets*
Do we have to start a freakin' riot someplace?
We have become a society of intolerance under the guise of religion.......
I am so over it!
Whatever happened to "love thy neighbor as thyself"?
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