Logical yet compassionate, able to change his mind without losing his way, aware that what he does in the larger political arena affects people's lives intimately. (Via NTodd of Dohiyi Mir)
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
Hatred is often fear cast outward. Those who hate feel empowered and scorn the fearful, even though their emotions are activated from the same source: the fear of the unknown or the other.
Thanks for the quote, btw. Amazing how the human condition has not changed in so many centuries....
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Yup. Just be accepting and everything is fine.
Why is tolerance so scary to Republicans? Do they really need to hate somebody to feel superior?
I don't know, and it isn't always hatred that motivates Republicans, as you clearly see here. I think it can be fear.
1 Timothy 4, on Republicans:
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
Hatred is often fear cast outward. Those who hate feel empowered and scorn the fearful, even though their emotions are activated from the same source: the fear of the unknown or the other.
Thanks for the quote, btw. Amazing how the human condition has not changed in so many centuries....
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