MAGA/trump versus Matthew 25

[pasayten]

Hmmm…. This is pretty clear… Ken, do you think trump/MAGA is considering this in their actions?

[pasayten]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/194488251 ... tid=wwXIfr

[pasayten]

[just-jim]

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Zelensky shows up in camouflage to the White House….
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[Rideback]

Trumps made $3 billion in first 3 months of this admin
https://www.yahoo.com/news/won-t-believ ... nYRVexqv6i

[Rideback]

No Ken, Trump isn't even close to being responsible with the public's money or taxpayer funds in how he spends them. Take a look at what has happened to the deficit under his reign, take a look at inflation, the tariffs...the abuse is monumental.
And as for his income, he's having a great run at increasing his own and family wealth off of the presidency.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-s1-55 ... presidency

[pasayten]

UNICEF projects 20% drop in 2026 funding after US cuts
By Michelle Nichols
April 15, 20254:10 PM PDT
Updated April 15, 2025

UNITED NATIONS, April 15 (Reuters) - UNICEF has projected that its 2026 budget will shrink by at least 20% compared to 2024, a spokesperson for the U.N. children's agency said on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump slashed global humanitarian aid.
In 2024, UNICEF had a budget of $8.9 billion and this year it has an estimated budget of $8.5 billion. The funding for 2025 is "evolving," the UNICEF spokesperson said.

UNICEF did not specifically name the U.S., but Washington has long been the agency's largest donor, contributing more than $800 million in 2024. Since UNICEF was established in 1946, all its executive directors have been American.
"At the moment, we are working off preliminary projections that our financial resources will be, at a minimum, 20% less, organization wide, in 2026 compared to 2024," said the UNICEF spokesperson.
Since returning to office in January for a second term, Trump's administration has cut billions of dollars in foreign assistance in a review that aimed to ensure programs align with his "America First" foreign policy.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said last week that it will cut 20% of its staff as it faces a shortfall of $58 million, after its largest donor, the United States, cut funding.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also last month said he is seeking ways to improve efficiency and cut costs as the world body turns 80 this year amid a cash crisis.

UNICEF has implemented some efficiency measures but "more cost-cutting steps will be required," said the spokesperson.
"We are looking at every aspect of our operation, including staffing, with the goal of focusing on what truly matters for children: that children survive and thrive," the spokesperson said. "But no final decisions have been taken."

Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Don Durfee, Nia Williams and Jamie Freed

[just-jim]

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Well since Trump either pays for these himself or has donations for his additions AND he has never taken the Presidential pay while in office, I do think he's quite responsible with the publics money!

Whoooosh…right over his head!

Q.E.D.
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[dorankj]

Well since Trump either pays for these himself or has donations for his additions AND he has never taken the Presidential pay while in office, I do think he's quite responsible with the publics money!

[Rideback]

Wow
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/breaking-i ... irect=true

[just-jim]

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[mister_coffee]

If you read about cults that kind of thinking is depressingly common.

You can dig around and find accounts of people in Jim Jones' or David Koresh's cults who rationalized that it was okay when the cult leaders raped their own children.

Does any of this sound familiar?

1. Charismatic Leadership:
A dominant, often charismatic, leader who is seen as infallible or even divine by members.
Members are expected to show unquestioning devotion and obedience to the leader.
The leader's authority is typically not subject to external scrutiny or accountability.

2. Authoritarian Control and Manipulation:
Cults exert tight control over members' lives, dictating their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Critical thinking and questioning are discouraged or punished.
Mind-numbing techniques may be used to suppress doubts and maintain conformity.
Members may be isolated from family and friends, making it harder to leave.

3. Extreme Beliefs and Ideologies:
Cults often hold unusual or extreme religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs.
They may promote a polarized "us vs. them" mentality, creating conflict with the wider society.
Cults often have an apocalyptic vision or believe they are on a special mission to save the world.

4. Financial and Behavioral Exploitation:
Cults may demand significant financial contributions from members, with little transparency about how the money is used.
Members may be subjected to unethical or illegal behaviors, often justified by the leader's authority.
Exploitation of members, including psychological and physical abuse, is common.

5. Isolation and Dependence:
Cults actively isolate members from their families, friends, and the outside world.
This isolation fosters dependence on the group and makes it more difficult for members to leave.
Members may be made to feel unworthy or guilty for considering leaving.

[just-jim]

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It is simply amazing - and certainly entraining as hell - watching ken go through the mental gymnastics and logical/factual fallacies and gyrations to get to a place to allow his own mind to not only accept FELON Guilty donnie, but actually defend him.
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[pasayten]

So Ken... Do you think that adding all the gold in the oval office is a proper and responsible use of government funds? Shows a mindset to me...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-doe ... al-office/

[Rideback]

I don't accept your apology Ken.
Perhaps you could show me where in your bible you find whataboutisms.

[dorankj]

It's FAR better then your "misuse" (al la Obummer/Biden/Harris/Clinton) of LIMITED government! You guys always get so angry when you realize you have zero valid response to solid arguments. You're allowed to shut your pie-hole and keep quiet ya-know!

[Rideback]

Thank you Ken for your grasp of Trump's misuse of govt, here's hoping you send him a note outlining your revelation.

[dorankj]

Glad you're bringing some scripture here, this little cult desperately needs some! BTW, never does Jesus say use the government to fulfill your personal obligations and take millions of dollars in taxes from OTHERS to then be used through government bureaucracy to fulfill scripture and commandments. That will never make YOU holy.

[mister_coffee]

I do think it is interesting how often cults of personality end up intersecting with child sexual abuse. Almost like there is a pattern there.

But in fairness I do not think the strongest analogy to Trump's Amerikkka in 2025 is Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy. I think a better analogy is China under Mao during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Or on a different note the Kmer Rouge under Pol Pot.

Actually the only serious comparison you can make between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler is that they both think (or thought) they were architects.

I've said this before multiple times. Implementing any kind of totalitarian information control on a society as complex as the United States of the 21st century will inevitably lead to spectacular systemic failures. Probably fairly quickly.

And when I say "spectacular systemic failures" I think the best analogy to visualize what I think will happen is to imagine if you are a passenger on a commercial jet flying over the Pacific and all of the engines suddenly explode.

[just-jim]

This conversation really is not for you, it's far beyond your ability (and morals) to comprehend.

Yeah…..Im sure gonna heed a lecture about ‘morals’ from someone who defends a convicted Felon who diddles little girls. Not.

[Rideback]

"“But don’t worry about America.
If this beloved country were transforming into an authoritarian state, you’d see masked agents roaming the streets, arresting and detaining innocent people. If 63% of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no violent criminal history or 93% had never been convicted of a violent crime, that would fit the definition of fascism.
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
— Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
Of course, if this country were heading in the same direction as fascist Italy or Nazi Germany, the government would be recruiting volunteers to join a paramilitary police force similar to Mussolini’s Voluntary Fascist Militia for National Security or Hitler’s Sturmabteilung (Assault Division). Thankfully, not even Superman is crazy enough to volunteer for a secret police force.
Which leads to a more hypothetical question:
What exactly would it take for most Americans to admit that America is a fascist country?
I think we can all agree that only a tyrant would deploy the military to target dissenters. What if he refused to extend aid to taxpayers in states that supported his political rivals? Only a fascist would direct military to “knock the hell out of” American citizens. A fascist dictator would pardon violent supporters and jail his political rivals. At least he hasn’t put an extremist Christian nationalist in charge of the military and purged the armed forces of everyone but white, heterosexual, cisgender men. That would probably be considered fascist.
But would firing government workers who told the truth be considered an act of fascism? What if we built a state-of-the-art concentration camp on American soil and called it “Alligator Alcatraz”? A real American wouldn’t stand for a president who punished colleges and private businesses that didn’t capitulate to his unilateral edicts. Is it an authoritarian state if the president tried to make CBS, NBC, ABC, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal into his personal propaganda outlets?
I’m not being facetious. Even if you are a Trump supporter, I genuinely want to know what constitutes a fascist “red flag.” Then again, I’m old enough to remember when fascism included inflation, losing health care jobs, fining private corporations and proposing a “national security force.” But that was back in the good old days when conservatives hated deficits, government regulations and the Internal Revenue Service. But now, they love big budget deficits, DEI regulations on private businesses and IRS snitching on private citizens.
To be fair, I might be wrong. It is entirely possible that Trump has not injured the Constitution, and American democracy is perfectly healthy. Maybe the less experienced, less educated, less qualified people who make up the Trump administration are better at caring for this country than all of the noted economists, historians, political scientists, legal scholars and actual fascism experts.
But here’s the thing: My brain still worked when I had a concussion. A broken wrist didn’t prevent me from dribbling, and a bone in my trachea didn’t stop me from talking. But just because most Germans didn’t end up in concentration camps doesn’t mean they didn’t know that Hitler was a fascist tyrant. Either they didn’t mind that their country was mass murdering its citizens, or they were too cowardly to speak up.
Or maybe they were Nazis, too.’ Tom Digby

[pasayten]

Typical answer from your type Ray! You don't actually consider the points being made and their validity, you just hate and demonize the people who you've already pre-determined are evil no matter what they do or why. Didn't Jesus have some important words about that?

Good grief Ken... MAGA/trump is everything about not caring for the least no matter how you try to spin it. trumps morals are gutter morals... MAGA is just a cloaked white supremacy and privilege movement. And you are a part of it. Jesus and the Bible have plenty of WORDS to say about that.

Love Thy Neighbor

Mark 12:31 ESV / 237 helpful votes
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

1 John 4:20-21 ESV / 215 helpful votes
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 215 helpful votes
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 152 helpful votes
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 22:36-40 ESV / 150 helpful votes
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Romans 13:10 ESV / 118 helpful votes
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

1 John 4:11 ESV / 110 helpful votes
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

John 3:16 ESV / 99 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 22:37-40 ESV / 97 helpful votes
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 96 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 95 helpful votes
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 93 helpful votes
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ...

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 92 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 89 helpful votes
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 80 helpful votes
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

John 15:13 ESV / 80 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 77 helpful votes
We love because he first loved us.

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 68 helpful votes
Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 13:9 ESV / 64 helpful votes
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Revelation 12:11 ESV / 62 helpful votes
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Luke 10:27 ESV / 62 helpful votes
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

Leviticus 19:13-18 ESV / 62 helpful votes
“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning. You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord. “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord. “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. ...

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

James 2:8 ESV / 59 helpful votes
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Romans 15:2 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

John 13:34 ESV / 50 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Matthew 5:43 ESV / 50 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 47 helpful votes
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Hebrews 13:1-2 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 40 helpful votes
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:24 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 38 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 John 3:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

James 1:27 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Romans 14:13 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

John 15:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Matthew 22:34-40 ESV / 36 helpful votes
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. ...

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 36 helpful votes
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

1 John 4:21 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

1 John 4:7 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 33 helpful votes
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 32 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Luke 6:27 ESV / 32 helpful votes
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Matthew 22:40 ESV / 32 helpful votes
On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 32 helpful votes
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes
“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 29 helpful votes
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Exodus 20:17 ESV / 29 helpful votes
“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

Leviticus 19:34 ESV / 27 helpful votes
You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

Romans 14:5 ESV / 26 helpful votes
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Romans 2:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.

Job 6:14 ESV / 24 helpful votes
“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Luke 6:31 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Let all that you do be done in love.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 22 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Luke 6:38 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Galatians 5:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 5:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Leviticus 19:15 ESV / 21 helpful votes
“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Romans 13:9-10 ESV / 20 helpful votes
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Mark 12:29-31 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Luke 6:35 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...

1 John 3:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

John 14:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Mark 12:30-31 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 17 helpful votes
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Deuteronomy 6:4-5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

1 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Mark 12:33 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Proverbs 17:17 ESV

[dorankj]

This conversation really is not for you, it's far beyond your ability (and morals) to comprehend.

[just-jim]

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It’s just crazy, Ray…isnt it? Watching folks willing to EXCUSE our FELON, CHILD RAPIST leader…whether Nationally or here locally!

It’s like 1936 in Germany…’Oh…he just wants to get the trains to run on time…’
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[dorankj]

Typical answer from your type Ray! You don't actually consider the points being made and their validity, you just hate and demonize the people who you've already pre-determined are evil no matter what they do or why. Didn't Jesus have some important words about that?