[Pyro7480]

Get a clue, brethren. Jesus said the world will HATE you. And you are going to - what - protest, write letters -- when His words are found to be true?

Sure, His words have proved true at many points after His Resurrection. That doesn't mean we have to approve of it.

[Taliesan]

So when Jesus says the world will hate you, and then it hates us, we're supposed to - what? Write letters? Make petitions? To accomplish what? To get them to - what - "respect" the Christian revelation more, aside from the question of their personal conversion?

Is it not clear from every page of the NT that the person who is unconverted is darkened in mind and heart, and cannot see the truth? This being Christianity 101, we are supposed to "not like it" when a pagan mind thinks like a pagan mind?

You honestly think Jesus gives a hoot that pagans, though they REMAIN UNCONVERTED, start giving Him more "respect"?

This whole discussion is foreign to the New Testament. It betrays an unbiblical mindset among the believers. It's silly.