(August 22, 2019 at 8:59 am)Belaqua Wrote:(August 22, 2019 at 1:46 am)Grandizer Wrote: Reread Romans, and you'll see just how lovely the remarks Paul makes about us human beings. The Good News does not change the fact that human nature is seen as shameful.
Reread 1 Corinthians, and you'll see how he wants us to deal with the fact that people are so often bad. Hint: not through hating them.
Then there was Jesus, who had a lot to say about loving one's neighbor, one's enemy, etc. Loving people is not hating people, by definition, and misanthropy is hating people.
This means, I guess, that according to certain definitions of True Christianity recently seen in action, we can judge that Jesus wasn't Christian.
Well, Jesus wasn't a Christian. He was a Jew.
And here's a more complete definition for misanthropy from Wikipedia:
Quote:Misanthropy is the general hatred, dislike, distrust or contempt of the human species or human nature
The stuff said in the Epistles would certainly meet this definition.
Passages on love don't erase the fact that the human nature is seen as contemptuous in the Epistles.