Loving your enemy means obeying God's law in your interactions with them. Don't murder them. Don't rob from them. Don't lie about them. Don't have sex with their spouses. Don't covet their property.
It does NOT mean you must gin up warm fuzzy feelings about them as if they aren't children of the Devil doing the works of their father.
Much damage is done by the stupid and profoundly misguided sentimentality that comes from not understanding this.
Perhaps, someday, people will care about and speak the actual truth. Even if it isn't polite. Trump can be our example in this. He often won't play the "let's be polite even if it's a lie" game, which is why people hate him. Sometimes you just can't be nice, and shouldn't be.
Loving your enemy means obeying God's law in your interactions with them. Don't murder them. Don't rob from them. Don't lie about them. Don't have sex with their spouses. Don't covet their property.
It does NOT mean you must gin up warm fuzzy feelings about them as if they aren't children of the Devil doing the works of their father.
Much damage is done by the stupid and profoundly misguided sentimentality that comes from not understanding this.
Perhaps, someday, people will care about and speak the actual truth. Even if it isn't polite. Trump can be our example in this. He often won't play the "let's be polite even if it's a lie" game, which is why people hate him. Sometimes you just can't be nice, and shouldn't be.
Nobody said (I) had warm fuzzy feelings about them. So 'PLEASE' quit putting words in my mouth. And P.S. have a blessed day.
The church needs to got back to the church militant. No idea why this post has been abandoned for these last couple of hundred years.