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To: Sunsong; Calvinist_Dark_Lord
I'll repeat it again. Condemnation harms others. Do you understand that?

If that's true, then we must conclude that God requires us to harm other people's pwecious wittle feewings at times.

"Ye brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come..."

"Woe unto ye scribes and pharisees, hypocrites..."

"Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity...."

There are many other examples if you care to read them. Jesus and the Apostles "condemn" people all over the New Testament. Tender wittle feewings are *sniff, sniff* HURT all over the place. Boo hoo.

Yes, condemnation hurts. Some people deserve to be emotionally hurt. Sometimes we are morally obligated to inflict that hurt. Sometimes that hurt can lead to repentance, which will spare them a far greater hurt.

"There are some people whom it is one's duty to offend" -- Lord Reith, first director-general of the BBC

392 posted on 11/19/2006 12:21:25 AM PST by Rytwyng (Only a Million Minuteman March can stop the Bush Border Betrayal!)
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To: Rytwyng
If that's true, then we must conclude that God requires us to harm other people's pwecious wittle feewings at times.

I would suggest that you choose to conclude that. And so I ask you - do you believe that you have some kind of special authority from God to harm others?

From you post it would be easy to get the impression that you think it is trivial to harm others. Is that accurate?

If so, you are wrong. To consciously harm is the opposite of love. It is something that decent good people don't do. People of common goodness and common decency don't find it funny to harm others. I see that mainly with the self-righteous and the spiritually arrogant. Some people actually think they know what is best for others. Can you imagine the arrogance of that? If you really understand what they are saying - especially when they think that they can tell whether someone would benefit from being hurt? The haughtiness and self-importance leading to delusion. Wow!

394 posted on 11/19/2006 12:48:38 AM PST by Sunsong
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