Jesus said: Love your enemy. And I don't think I can ever do that. And that's precisely why I've refused to procreate. Who can love their enemy? If no one can, then who can love their child if that child turns out into an enemy? I think that I'm my parents' enemy, and vice versa.
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Nobody knows what Jesus said. None of the gospels were written until 2 or 3 generations later, by people who never saw him. The Bible itself wasn't pieced together until around 400 A.D.
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I agree. No one knows what Jesus actually said. Nor does anyone know for sure that Jesus really existed. (I don't mean any offense to pious believers. Please forgive me.) The point here is that someone (at least the author of the Bible) said, "Love your enemy."
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Yeah, what better way to demoralize and brainwash the masses than by convincing them that God said for them to love their enemies. Make them weak and ineffectual and you can easily manipulate them.
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The message "Love your enemies" may sound like a defeatist one that makes people weak. But to me, it can be interpreted as urging us to be strong. Loving your enemies is for gods and saints and other strongest people, not for us feeble-minded, at least not for me.
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I decided not to procreate precisely becase I know perfectly well that some children turn out to be enemies of their parents, and vice versa. The greatest problem is that both sides mean well. None of them is a real criminal, vagabond, or wicked. Both sides may be saintly.
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