Book also says homosexuality is a sin but in a secular society we temper our judgement for the greater good. You wanna achieve meaningful change in China then you should be the first to enlist when shit hit's the fan. Even then 9/10 times in modern warfare shit's only likely get worse in the years afterwards. I thoroughly believe in compassion for my fellow man but won't be a hypocrite and pass judgement until my own house is in order. We do the same shit to our prisoners. Oh wait... we pay them 10 cents an hour so they can buy processed junk food from the commissary. We're so much better. The failure in idealism is they see the finish line while failing to realize it's one step at a time to cross. Instead of fighting for something that can actually be accomplished they focus on the end result and see any progress as failure. Can we do better? You're damn right we can but people have to be willing to put in the work. Focusing on grand ideals but not putting in the daily grind to get there accomplishes nothing. When a fat person wants to lose weight they can either put in the work everyday to get skinny or throw their hands in the air and declare themselves sexy. That's the way "racial" debate in this country is headed as well. Tolerance of the intolerant is not a virtue. I would never hate a secular muslim in a western society. (also islam isn't a race but words are more about assigning defamation than definition atm) I'm not going to put on a set of blinders and consider them all to be culturally equal. When your religion hasn't had a truly meaningful reformation and focuses on gays, jews, infidels Im gonna say that overall it's a shit set of beliefs. Is it bigotry? Not really. I feel the same about fundamentalists in any religion. The problem is Islam has the most of them.
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Book also says homosexuality is a sin but in a secular society we temper our judgement for the greater good. You wanna achieve meaningful change in China then you should be the first to enlist when shit hit's the fan. Even then 9/10 times in modern warfare shit's only likely get worse in the years afterwards. I thoroughly believe in compassion for my fellow man but won't be a hypocrite and pass judgement until my own house is in order. We do the same shit to our prisoners. Oh wait... we pay them 10 cents an hour so they can buy processed junk food from the commissary. We're so much better. The failure in idealism is they see the finish line while failing to realize it's one step at a time to cross. Instead of fighting for something that can actually be accomplished they focus on the end result and see any progress as failure. Can we do better? You're damn right we can but people have to be willing to put in the work. Focusing on grand ideals but not putting in the daily grind to get there accomplishes nothing. When a fat person wants to lose weight they can either put in the work everyday to get skinny or throw their hands in the air and declare themselves sexy. That's the way "racial" debate in this country is headed as well. Tolerance of the intolerant is not a virtue. I would never hate a secular muslim in a western society. (also islam isn't a race but words are more about assigning defamation than definition atm) I'm not going to put on a set of blinders and consider them all to be culturally equal. When your religion hasn't had a truly meaningful reformation and focuses on gays, jews, infidels Im gonna say that overall it's a shit set of beliefs. Is it bigotry? Not really. I feel the same about fundamentalists in any religion. The problem is Islam has the most of them.
the old bible maxim (Matthew 7:4 etc)
and yet you can improve your compassion for your fellow human, at least according to traditional values