Dear NNS,

You can't seem to let go. You seem compelled to carry on, to express your view and to point out my flaws. It apparently fulfills a need for you. You are now arguing with a person who is not arguing back.

It is not my business to convince you of anything. I said what I felt about your views. I see no point in continual argy-bargy.

To Belly.

I'm sorry if what I've said is hard to agree with or to act on. Several of the thoughts stem from observations and beliefs; as well as from my faith being challenged. Many times I realized that several of the challenges made against Christianity have no merit. The ones that do have merit though, I try to take into account, and realize the common faults and try not to fall into them. Those same type of lessons of being challenged and considering those challenges, are lessons I'm applying in my last responses to you, regarding the conversation of solving hatred. From your part of this discussion I think this is a serious issue to you, so I wanted to share any suggestions I had to offer. It's an important issue to me as well.

Regarding the missionaries.

The issues I have is that David's description of missionary is wrong, and that by David's description of missionary, he fits it more then I do. So when he says to live and let live, and he does nothing to act on his own words, then everything he says regarding missionaries is hypocritical and a double standard. Hypocrisy is a pet peeve of mine. It only fuels hatred from both the person who holds the double standard, as well as fuels anger to those who see see it's hypocrisy.

//by David's description of missionary, he fits it more then I do.//

Sure, you keep telling yourself that, buddy.

NNS May I again tell you I too was a Christian, for all the same reasons you tell me you are.
I truly honestly thought that was the only way to a better world.
I was wrong, long before the world found out about institutional rape of kids.
I saw a man of God send his mother in law on stage on crutches.
She walked of without them, had never ever needed them.
He went onto be a TV Evangelist, but long before kept a kid with a broken are for three days from medical help, praying for God to heal him.
He preached God forgives, but fell and his by then massive Church did not forgive him.
Ask Buddha who Jesus is,ask the God of any faith why the others exist
no I do not hate, but yes I am waiting for humanity to understand no one is coming to fix it we must do it our selves see you in another thread

To Belly. You don't have to be Christian to consider the points I made regarding hatred. From earlier in the conversation for methods to remove hatred from ourselves; to later in the conversation regarding that sometimes people's anger and hatred are there due to a valid reason, and addressing the cause (and if possible resolving it by not doing it anymore) are good attributes to removing hatred.

I even gave examples of hatred playing out stemmed from something they hated in another group. The groups identified were left and right ideologies, as well as migrant refugees and the people who want borders closed, or at least more closed. All 4 of the group's had a reason for dome of them to grow extreem in their ideology and comity some kind of act of hatred.

You don't have to be Christian to consider the points made, nor do you have to be Christian to see the merit behind them. That said, if I have a point to consider that has roots from a Christian understanding, I think there's good reason to mention that as the source. More and more people think faith and religion are obsolete. I disagree. You f there are merit to the points I made, then let God recieve the credit for that insight. If the points don't have merit, so be it, but at least in this conversation I think they do.

See you in a different conversation.

*correction to the last post*

"You f" was meant to say "if."

Not sure how the typo got in there.