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Picture of Jesus preaching “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself” and captioned with someone asking, “Who is my neighbor?”, and Jesus replying, “It’s whoever you’re hoping I wouldn’t say.”
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That’s kinda what he said tho. He followed it up with the parable of the good Samaritan. Pretty much saying “You know that nearly-universally reviled ethnic group from the nation bordering ours? They’re your neighbor”
“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. ‘Blessed are the merciful’ in a courtroom? ‘Blessed are the peacemakers’ in the Pentagon? Give me a break!”’
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
And I thought I couldn’t like Vonnegut any more than I already did XD
Okay, but it was you who gave me depression and made me hate myself
Him, or the people talking in his name?
Him, it’s genetic over at least 4 generations of my family.
Well that’s clearly the work of Darwin, not the Christ.
/s
I say give everyone a chance, and more than one if you’re a patient and understanding person. Most people we could see as “evil” are just misguided and incompetent, and sometimes the fault lies within us and our personal lackings. Don’t rush to judge, stay for longer in the uncertainty of things.
Love my neighbor how I love myself? Time to grab a baseball bat…
Make sure that it has a flared base, and always ask for consent.
This is something we have to work out as a society. Even among the far left total-inclusion total-equality community (anyone else? anyone?) there are people who are contemptible, whether for being social renegades, for being exceptionally violent, for being perversely interested in taboos (pedophiles, for instance), for being too rich or too poor, for being the wrong kind of sick or disabled (we crazies get a lot of flack), there are still some we resent.
Fifteen-year-old teenagers are a big group. We want to lock the girls up in the basement and maroon the boys on an island. I’ve heard podcasters recognize that teenage incels in the alt-right-to-MAGA pipeline are being totally abandoned and led by society to join Trump’s War Boys. But fuck those guys.
We need a society that respects the rights and protections of everyone, no matter how despicable or ugly or contemptible or rude they are.
For instance, when investigating violent criminals in the 20th century, we started allowing for illegally obtained evidence, searches made without a warrant, coerced confessions and such, but since the perp committed heinous crimes it was just too difficult to allow them to walk, given what they did… And with time, that set precedent for black guys possessing a gram of crack or paraphernalia, even if they had no record of violent crime or even property crime.
And now the US has, by far, the highest incarceration rate in the world.
So when we start again, rights and protections have to be guaranteed to absolutely everyone. Sustenance sufficient to live has to be available to absolutely every last person. No exceptions, even when they really don’t deserve it. (In fact, by being a human being, they do.)
Until we figure out how to assure the inclusivity circle doesn’t leak, every society will drift toward autocracy. Again.
Modern translation: Leave our friends & neighbors alone!
Sometimes :3
