(September 4, 2016 at 3:57 pm)Drich Wrote:(September 4, 2016 at 2:47 pm)Cecelia Wrote: It's so interesting to me that often Christians lack the compassion to show what is true love. The idea of 'hate the sin, love the sinner' is one great example of that. They believe that they can sit and silently judge someone as a sinner, while still having love for them. This isn't love at all, of course. But they don't get that. Because their book has such a warped idea of what love is, that they have a warped idea of what love is. They wouldn't know what love was if it bit them in the ass.
Because sin is an abstract uniquely christian concept, and you can not POSSIBLY Love someone who sins against you (if sin were a thing...)
Which is why I liken loving a sinner hating a sin to loving a family member who was an addict.
As it is possible to love a child or spouse addicted to a drug, and HATE the Pain they bring into your life as an addict.
Using a bullshit word rooted in superstition like the word "sin" does not make a sky hero vs a ground villain battling over the neurons in your brain to make one an addict a real thing. It is absurd to think atheists are incapable of having the same reactions and emotions to the actions of others that a theist may have.
What makes one an addict are chemical addictions, not super heros vs super villains.
