The end goal of Christianity should be to love as God loves everyone, and to will for the salvation of all men, to have no enemies.
The only people I know like this are specifically not Christians
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I just wish Christians would actually follow Christ's teachings.
Amen
Exactly! We are failing to do so - collectively.
I wish more Christians and people of religion in general felt this way .
Meanwhile in reality, Christians continue to be the most hateful people...
I'd say a third of people never enter a place of being very reflective about what they are doing and what they have done. I think they are either dumb or calloused, and they do not want to be NOT calloused because their callouses hold together their fragile mental life.
Another third of people only enter this place of reflection until a significant amount of their youth is over, or even a signifcant amount of thier life is over.
The last third of people are naturally quite reflective, and they tend to try to avoid slighting others and are quite empathetic. However, they receive more pain from this - they feel a deep sense of injustice because they are surrounded by it, and they may become calloused and even dish out some hatred themselves, right...
So, I think this is more about the problem of people than a problem of a specific kind of people, whether they are Christian or not.
No, you're responding to a strawman like "Christians are the only hateful people" and explaining how other people could also be hateful. That is not what I said, and your reply is not relevant.
Christians are the most hateful people. Their made-up framework for the universe that revolves around judgement of sins and being God's super special buddy allows them to feel holier than thou and justify their mistreatment of others. Every misdeed comes with an exception and automatic forgiveness for them, because they're a true believer, while every perceived or imagined misdeed from others is proof that others should be condemned.
Is this a fucking joke? Christians gave me suicidal ideation. Christians literally almost cost me my life. Fuck those evil assholes so much—worst cult man ever made.
Was it Christianity's fault or that of those claiming to profess it?
I do not doubt what you are saying - there are very bad Christians out there, this is real. But I would point out that many Buddhist countries are troubled by violence and the gross sexual exploitation of women, but this is not a reflection of Buddhism, either, but rather a reflection of how the teachings have failed to penetrate the hearts of people.
You have a right to be angry... to feel slighted... to feel mistreated... Because that happened. But I would say that true liberation comes from understanding that the people who did this are pathetic - if they did it because they WILLED you to suffer, they are pathetic because of how mentally unwell & spiritually insane they are, and if they did it out of ignorance, they are unskilled & cognitively... dumb.
Be true to your negative emotions, right, but then try to overcome that negativity so you don't have to suffer the same losses over & over again, right.
I do not want to preach to anybody on this sort of thing - I am not some guru. I am just talking about some of my own pain - I come to grips with it actually through ordering my thoughts and trying to sincerely understand the root cause.