Daniel Wigton on Nostr: This is the same mistake that Israel makes, assuming that the other side is solely ...
This is the same mistake that Israel makes, assuming that the other side is solely driven by hate and that they can't be reasoned with. Terrorist is a convenient term that gets used to paint a group as someone who will keep committing atrocities until eliminated.
If both sides assume it of the other then there will not be peace. If you assume it of them then they are correct in assuming it of you. You declare that they must not be reasoned with, that makes you the unreasonable people they assume you to be.
This is simple logic. Your hatred is killing you. Their hatred is killing them. Knock it off!
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all you mind, and with all your strength."
"Love your neighbor as your self."
"But who is my neighbor"
Then Jesus tells a story that is basically the roots of today's conflicts. The Good Samaritan. But now you are the protagonist, the Christian, the inheritors of the promise of Abraham through Jesus Christ and it is to you to Love the neighbor with the incomplete understanding of the truth.
If both sides assume it of the other then there will not be peace. If you assume it of them then they are correct in assuming it of you. You declare that they must not be reasoned with, that makes you the unreasonable people they assume you to be.
This is simple logic. Your hatred is killing you. Their hatred is killing them. Knock it off!
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all you mind, and with all your strength."
"Love your neighbor as your self."
"But who is my neighbor"
Then Jesus tells a story that is basically the roots of today's conflicts. The Good Samaritan. But now you are the protagonist, the Christian, the inheritors of the promise of Abraham through Jesus Christ and it is to you to Love the neighbor with the incomplete understanding of the truth.