Comments on: Compassion Again http://www.bloggernews.net/121976 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:56:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Toughenough http://www.bloggernews.net/121976#comment-1396126 Toughenough Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:33:46 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/121976#comment-1396126 You may have missed your calling to make a difference, religions degenerate...not a relationship with God...Perhaps you were looking at the trees instead of the forest. Most world religions teach hate, most churches do although they hide it within their committes, traditions and doctrines. I have been a christian longer than I have been anything else in my life (other than alive) my family & I recently decided to abandon our church pews for service. We have Bible Study with family and friends at home, then we visit nursing homes, shutins, feed the hungry, take clothes to the homeless...we may not be changing the world but we are trying to take Christ to those who need Him. We feel that Jesus set an example of meeting peoples needs physically before He healed them spiritually. You may have missed your calling to make a difference, religions degenerate…not a relationship with God…Perhaps you were looking at the trees instead of the forest. Most world religions teach hate, most churches do although they hide it within their committes, traditions and doctrines. I have been a christian longer than I have been anything else in my life (other than alive) my family & I recently decided to abandon our church pews for service. We have Bible Study with family and friends at home, then we visit nursing homes, shutins, feed the hungry, take clothes to the homeless…we may not be changing the world but we are trying to take Christ to those who need Him. We feel that Jesus set an example of meeting peoples needs physically before He healed them spiritually.

]]> By: Nancy Reyes http://www.bloggernews.net/121976#comment-1395338 Nancy Reyes Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:08:03 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/121976#comment-1395338 "...my teachers had taught me that our religions had begun to degenerate into fixations with war, hatred, revenge, killing..." ah, but my teachers taught me to "know love and serve God in this world by caring for my neighbor". and you know what? IF you go into the streets, you will meet a lot of folks who do just that, from the taxidriver who is supporting an extended family in Pakistan to the cheerful sales clerk who is raising her grandchildren on her salary because their mother is a drug addict. your teachers were playing the game of "ain't it awful", cherry picking the bad out of the good. I read a lot more about hate caused by religion in the New York Times than I actually see in reality... “…my teachers had taught me that our religions had begun to degenerate into fixations with war, hatred, revenge, killing…”

ah, but my teachers taught me to “know love and serve God in this world by caring for my neighbor”.

and you know what? IF you go into the streets, you will meet a lot of folks who do just that, from the taxidriver who is supporting an extended family in Pakistan to the cheerful sales clerk who is raising her grandchildren on her salary because their mother is a drug addict.

your teachers were playing the game of “ain’t it awful”, cherry picking the bad out of the good. I read a lot more about hate caused by religion in the New York Times than I actually see in reality…

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