We are so used to being gentle to evil behavior that harms future generations that it's no wonder the world looks like hell and the worst of mankind's potential is on display.
Have the courage to defend good things for the sake of our young. Leave it better than you received it, for goodness sake.
Be gentle to innocence, praise the good, forgive the fallen, and be harsh to evil behavior (publicly).
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I always say if someone does something wrong in public, then I can correct them in public. 💪
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"pEdOPhIliA iS a CoNSpiRacY tHEOry!"
So much so that the Bible repeatedly warms against it as if society can't hear the message clearly and loudly enough.
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When I think of MAPS it gives me the creeps.
It gives me motivation to hurt someone. I don't like violence. But that label and the casual energy it lends to those people is cause in my book to want to bend someone's knees backwards.
when a society's norms are bent, twisted, and distorted to the point of snapping by people that want to diddle little kids... it seems better their knees than our brains.
So true! If we don't speak up, who will? I hope we can reverse this tide.
"Be gentle to innocence, praise the good, forgive the fallen, and be harsh to evil behavior (publicly)."
Your words sound so much like those of Patanjali. Wise and timely words then and now
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“Let those who love the Lord hate evil.”
Came across that verse today through a podcast @Auxmos sent me, and it speaks volumes for the present moment. A lot of people need to hear that they need to hate evil.
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I think this is terrible advice.
You cannot hate the sin and love the sinner because the sin is not an entity. There is no "murder" out there somewhere in the world you can weigh or drop on your foot or feel hate towards. There are only murderers.
So the question is: will you hate the sinner or love the sinner?
You cannot hate genocide or child rape?
You cannot pray for sinners to be saved and to turn away from their sin, living in Christ?
These do not conflict.
Correct, you cannot - because these are not entities on which you can act but actions performed by entities
You can hate it, but when do you pick up the sword?
It is a great question... one of my solid Christian friends routinely talks about loving the sinner and forgiving. He doesn't say he is a pacifist, but it feels like it to me. So the question is when does the righteous Christian fight back against the perceived evil? It's quite a question to ponder.
“The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion” - Proverbs 28:1
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Amen!
