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Originally Posted by limbodancer
Did Jesus not tell you to love your enemy ... the Bible is a fairy tale of idiot sheep farmers
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You mentioned respect, but wouldn't it be a disrespectful kind of love not to tell someone (one's enemy in this example) what the outcomes of their choices were? Again, if that enemy wants to poison you or slice open your abdomen, how can respect be shown? By bringing along a funnel so the poison gets well down your throat before you have time to spit it out? By sharpening up your enemy's gizzard slicer? Perhaps. But you see, I don't respect my enemy. The desire to kill me whether by slicing, crushing, poisoning, electrocuting, mincing, sawing, starving, dehydrating or any other means is reprehensible and the product of a warped and dangerous world view. To earn respect, such an enemy needs to repudiate that outlook and the source from which it derives.
Love is explaining why that must be so.
The passages you referred to, citing Jesus as a source, come from The Gospels. The disciples were fishermen, not sheep farmers. Jesus was a carpenter. Perhaps in your introduction you could find a reference for this, maybe in John chapter 21.