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Why would you think you have a monopoly on understanding of Jesus' teachings?

There are thousands of varieties of christianity or Christ-followers, all with different understanding of Jesus' teachings. Many of which are mutually incompatible.

[MrMcCall]

Read the rest of the longest thread here. It's not "my" understanding, it's the result of learning from different traditions, combined with the path my life has taken me. I prayed really, really hard when I was 7yo, with tears rolling down my cheeks; it changed my life. Those changes have led me to having a most interesting, if difficult at times, life.

What is important is that I love everyone in the purest sense of the word, in that I want everyone to be happy. I'm also a lifetime hardcore software engineer (or at least trying to be), so I see things from a systems analysis and integration perspective, so I see our world's problems as solvable, should everyone work together cooperatively, instead of wreaking destruction competitively.

Happiness for one and all is possible, but we have to try, each one of us. The future is not having a single form of religion, but understanding that God's Will for us is to love one another, from within all our different cultures and paths.

Compassion is the only viable and sustainable path forward for the human race, but it's gonna get bumpier before it gets smoother. Steel youselves while there's still a relative peace.

"The Way goes in." --Rumi

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> It's not "my" understanding, it's the result of learning from different traditions, combined with the path my life has taken me.

That sounds an awfully lot like your understanding. What Christian would your above statement not apply to?

> What is important is that I love everyone in the purest sense of the word

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> Compassion is the only viable and sustainable path forward for the human

I guess I'm just having a hard time squaring these statements with you calling other people "vultures", "dipshits that they are", "lying motherfucker", "I damn them, too",

[MrMcCall]

> That sounds an awfully lot like your understanding. What Christian would your above statement not apply to?

Most Christians I have met or read about would not learn from an Islamic Sufi Murshid, or Guru Nanak, or Buddhism's 8-fold path, or Taoism, or Judaic thought, or the Gita, or the history of WWII.

> I guess I'm just having a hard time squaring these statements with you calling other people "vultures", "dipshits that they are", "lying motherfucker", "I damn them, too",

I've done no harm so long as I'm being honest and only wish them to get their heads out of their asses so that they will stop hurting others. That is for their benefit, too, tho those aholes tend to ignore all recommendations to fix their sh_t and, by doing so, stop inflicting misguided, selfish misery on others.

Jesus said he "did not come to bring peace but a sword". Maybe my middling level of spiritual development includes my using unsavory language (and, therefore, I should, myself, level-up in that respect; I'm not convinced I shouldn't speak more gently), or maybe I am a product of the times we live in, and I am merely speaking in the way that motherf_ckers will understand :-) because this sh_t is serious!

How should the Allied forces have spoken about Axis sympathizers (who lived in Allied countries) when those Axis powers were causing so much misery and devastation?

Every day, we are all choosing one of the three sides in this world:

1) The side of universal compassion.

2) The side of animalistic brutality.

3) The side of selfish ignorance that doesn't take a side and just says, "It's not my problem."

There is no fourth option, my friend.