Would it help you to understand the issue if we substitute the word "fear" for the word "hate?" Have you noticed some of the more popular methods that leaders and influential people use to motivate large numbers of people? Or are you just fixated on the character of the stereotype of the persons who tend to disagree with you. Looks like the latter, Jeff. And what's up with this:
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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
I guess when so much of what they stand for crumbles under even the slightest objective scrutiny......
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So I guess that most of the world's population stands for principles that simply crumble under your rapier intellect? And you use this kind of love-fest to point out that others are playing the hate card?
A friend recently pointed out to me something pretty fundmental that I had missed. I think it's obvious that socialism is what Jesus asked us to do. He asked us to live a life of charity. We're not doing that, but some folks want to, and in small groups, they do. Very effectively, I might add. But here's the twist: IT's the pagan hippies that are doing it, and not the fundamental christians. There are people in every society that are just not willing to do that. Their desire to share and live in harmony rather than competition is just not strong enough to overcome their desire for security (that's the nicest way I can describe what is really greed). So, the reason communism won't work as a national system, the reason the great social experiment Jesus asked us to try can not happen on a national scale, is because only a portion of the population is willing to go there. And that group is not the free-market survival-of-the-fittest, some-are-winner-and-some-are-losers, fundamentalist so-called "christians."
That being the case, I choose sides. This is one Christian who will hang with the pagans. And that's what Jesus did. He did not care much for the pharises, and neither do I.