[fundie explains the Golden Rule]
Well that is NOT a christian belief. That is a secular idea which has nothing to do with christianity. Christianity says to love your neighbour as yourself and who is your neighbour? the bible says it is those who take care of your needs. I might not want to be punished if I do something wrong but that does not mean that it is wrong to punish me if I do in fact do something wrong. to think you should treat others as you want to be treated is a perversion of the gospel and grotesquely insulting to true christians.
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"Christianity says to love your neighbour as yourself and who is your neighbour? the bible says it is those who take care of your needs."
Fundie no understand own Bible? Gasp.
That's completely wrong, Breakturd. The point Jesus was making was that anyone and everyone, even your heathen enemy, is your neighbor.
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This is even worse than the fundie who claimed that when Jesus said, "Love your brother as yourself" that he was talking about "brothers in Christ," that is, fellow Christians, so it was OK to hate all non-Christians (and presumably Christians he deemed to be not true Christians).
"Do to no one what you yourself dislike."
"Recognize that your neighbor feels as you do, and keep in mind your own dislikes."
"And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise."
In the Parable of the Good Samaritan - used by Jesus to answer the question "Who is my neighbor?" - the neighbor was the man who fell robbed and beaten by the wayside, not the Samaritan. There is something else in that parable: your neighbor is also someone who may have views about religion you can't stand.
As Hillel said, "Do not do to another what is hateful to you. That is the Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and learn."
As pointed out above, that golden rule is IN THE DAMNED BOOK!
*sigh* RTFM, you stupid putz...
to think you should treat others as you want to be treated is a perversion of the gospel and grotesquely insulting to true christians.
Kinda puts a dampener on the "Christians are moral, heathens are immoral" schtick, doesn't it?
Matthew 7:12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
You might try actually READING the gospels.
Christianity says to love your neighbour as yourself
What happened to "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." [Matt 7:12] Sounds like the Golden Rule to me ...
the bible says it is those who take care of your needs.
Then this went right over your head: "For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again." [Luke 6:32-34] You might read the rest of the passage, too.
So, Matthew 7:12 is a perversion of the Gospel?
Why is it a perversion to treat others as you want to be treated? If you think that the way you want to be treated is a perversion, that says more about your wishes than you perhaps want to divulge, dearie.
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