Werner:
OK, so go on with your “religion” of praising and adoring holy hate.
I for myself will stick with the one of whom John said “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.”
You know what is the opposite of love and what is the opposite of hate?
Werner
I understand your point, but I believe that you are confusing “love” with “tolerance”.
To love truly as Christ taught us is to love unconditionally, regardless of a persons faults & shortcomings, but to love unconditionally does not meant we overlook or ignore someones sinfulness. We do not judge, but it is clear when a person is living a life that does not follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ, so we must correct, instruct & admonish.
“Tolerance” is the exact opposite of love, opposite in all things to true love that comes from God. Tolerance does not correct, instruct nor admonish, in fact it does nothing. Tolerance is not what Jesus taught us, He taught us to love as He loved us, not put up with sin all the while detesting the person who is in error.
The most important aspect of love & the one aspect most forgotten or ignored is that LOVE DOES NOT REJOICE IN WHAT IS EVIL, BUT REJOICES ONLY WITH THE TRUTH.
I’d agree, Divine Providence is most likely not all to impressed with a group of sexual perverts parading in the streets just to invoke hatred & then claim to be victimized by religious people, but God does not rejoice in their sinfulness either. If God were to unleash His wrath on all sinners then there would not be one of us left to stand blameless in His pressence, so He
allows these things to happen, just as He has allowed abortion, murder, war, famine, & the overwhelming spirit of ignorance to plague mankind. It is not His Divine Will, but His permissive will to let such things exsists.
It’s our job as Christians to take a stand against the workings of the evil one in this world. If we stand idly by & do nothing, then we have become worthless both to God & ourselves.
Love is action. Love is eternal. Love is not tolerance.