Corruption, Duplicitousness, and Lying are Important Christian Values, Apparently.

[Bretton Garcia]

272. However? I thank you for mentioning these sermons

And beginning to honestly grapple with them.

In particular, the way our Bible and churches deal with the question of violence, strikes many of us as problematic. I'm suggesting that even our churches and their best answers, look a little serpentine.

If you'd like to post this particular subject fir discussion, that would be useful.

I e.: can we really get from 1) kill the enemies of Israel; to 2) thou shalt not kill; to 3) love your neighbors, and 4) love your enemies. To 5) kill your enemies lovingly. Love the evemy, hate the sin. And 6) kill the enemy to kill the sin?

It all looks a little snaky and slyly sophisticatical to me. Even the best answers.

Arguably say, the answer might be, 7) to learn to love your enemy, and in that way kill your enmity. But that answer comes only after many snakelike reversals, contradictions, in direction. And likely that last answer has problems too.

So with Christianity., we're left with many unsatisfactory or contradictory answers.