There are only so many horrible people with names and addresses doing this kind of thing.

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You seem to be fully accepting the contortion of language to the degree that you accept that enemies must be allies. I don’t know any main stream media leftist pundits, they’re all liberal and some of them disguise themselves to be leftists; those ones are liars trying to muddy the water, not representatives of leftist ideology

What, you expect us to take all the money we stole from everybody else and dump it in a big pile and light it on fire? What else are we supposed to do with such massive mountains of wealth but wreak havoc and destruction on those who don’t live like us? Have you even read the Bible? We’re the hand of God here to bring about the 1000 year reign of Jesus; now how are supposed to do that if we wasted all our money, neigh a single penny, loving our neighbors?

They can sure define the word “enlightenment” to be whatever they want. However, the spiritual concept traditionally referred to as “enlightenment” has been pretty consistent for millennia. Traditionally enlightened people would carry the traits of being at peace, able to experience joy through suffering, and having heightened sense of empathy and connectedness to those around them. All the billionaires i read about are selfish, miserable people with poor emotional intelligence and an insistence to project blame away from them; these are not traits of the enlightened

I think the typical answer is to start digging into the definition of “love”. I am personally of the opinion that the number of self serving, narrow ways to interpret the Bible significantly outweigh the number of holistic, neighborly interpretations. The history of Christianity is filled with selfish power hungry people using whatever means necessary to justify their quests for power and domination.

How the Bible is interpreted is a perpetually evolving art practiced differently by different group. Do the laws of the old testament apply to modern life? Is the book of Revelation a metaphor for how to live or a literal prophesy for the end of the world?

I personally find great amusement at some of the contrasts between what Jesus teaches and what are taught in the epistles. Most amusing, of course, is how openly Jesus associated with women vs what Paul keeps espousing at the end of 1 Corinth 14 and 1 Tomothy 2.

So to more succinctly state it, since God is manifested in significant part through our actions, the rules are ultimately made up and the points don’t matter. statements like “God loves everybody” is as a declaration of the state of the universe in so far as it is an admission of one’s own moral values. It is imperative to espouse and defend this narrative that God loves everybody because otherwise it becomes false.

If this constructed version of God doesn’t make sense, we can perfectly swap “God” and “Mother Nature” as they are interchangeable concepts. I find some rest in the belief that our existence aligns with the inherent nature of the universe, even if we can be real boneheads about it sometimes.

This idea would seem to rest on the logic that any given poor person would be less likely to be corrupted by power than a given rich person (presumably due to their experiences being poor). In my experience when you give someone who is used to destitution access to power and resources their instincts are incredibly self serving. Being part of the proletariat does not automatically indicate any amount of empathy, humility, self control, forward thinking, or any other characteristic of a good, fair leader.

Pro tip: medical debt doesn’t affect your credit score

So, like, who is it? Surely the Streisand affect couldn’t rear its ugly head for something like this