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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!

Sunsong: If we were simply mouthing off, hurting people with our words to no purpose, all of your criticisms would be right. However, that's not what we're doing, and I think you know that full well. You have shown your lack of good faith and your refusal to acknowledge refutations of your arguments in prior discussions and I'm not sure why I'm bothering to engage you this time around.

But, for the record -- there are times when painful words MUST be spoken, to prevent even greater hurt. It is neither arrogance, nor sin, nor lack of love, to speak the necessary-but-hurtful words in those situations. Doctors do it every day: "Stop smoking!" "Lose weight!". Yet nobody accuses the doctors of being "judgemental" or "condemning", even though the fatty in the exam room may be deeply offended at the suggested that she needs to lose weight. Well, it is no different when Christians say, "Stop abortion!", "Stop homosexuality", etc.