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posted 3 days ago by RealWildRanter on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +30Score on mirror )
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Vlad_The_Impaler on scored.co
3 days ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror ) 3 children
Some things that Christianity teaches I struggle with

Such as "love thy enemy"

Or turn thy cheek

I don't like this pacifist self sacrificial love muh enemies turn muh cheek stuff.

I try to be Christian but it is my instinct to not turn muh cheek when someone wants a fight.
BeefyBelisarius on scored.co
3 days ago 5 points (+0 / -0 / +5Score on mirror )
You're also told to buy a sword, so it's not like you're expected to be a doormat.
RealWildRanter on scored.co
3 days ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror )
Consider we've been misled by malicious clerics and preachers for years to accept jews and a bunch of hippie philosophy that disagrees with Christ teachings.

For instance love your enemy was taught out of context.

> Mat 5:43-44 CPDV “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and you shall have hatred for your enemy.’ 44. But I say to you: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. And pray for those who persecute and slander you.”

So love your enemy means pray for them so they can receive enlightenment and repent of what they have done. The turn your cheek thing comes right before that passage and it is said with the same spirit. You can't pray without faith which is a form of love.

Consider that there's no charity without justice. So if you do what's right God will deliver His justice to you and your enemies.

> Mat 10:32-34 CPDV “Therefore, everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father, who is in heaven. 33. But whoever will have denied me before men, I also will deny before my Father, who is in heaven. *34. Do not think that I came to send peace upon the earth. I came, not to send peace, but the sword.*”

Your life and soul belongs to God. Not fighting for them makes you unworthy of him.

There are good Roman Catholics out there. Ask the Holy Spirit to meet them, learn and pray together.

May His peace br always with you brother.
cognoscere on scored.co
2 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Big religion is a tool of the state. It calls you to die for the state in its name. And at the same time it calls you to be docile against the tyranny of the state. No intercessor is needed between you and God.
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