...Hate Islam , love muslims is ...
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Hate is against the sin, so is a moniker the sin? And I wonder if what a child is taught ever leaves them, so I'm not certain I'd be able to tell someone I hate their religion. It obviously had a value, in their life, positive or negative. It is in some ways bound to their character, requires choices to be made that may or may not align with Him.
On my first day of work, in Las Vegas, I took a bus. On a couple of breaks, some people mingled outside. I mentioned the bus's unreliability, geeked out about servers and networking, and listened to some stories about getting promoted to that work. In that course, a Good Muslim didn't see me beat up and robbed, on the street, but he offered a ride home to avoid the heat, which I accepted. It was so hot, everyone outside on break was crazy! (I thought to myself.) He was simply friendly. He needed to stop at a an international mart, talked about law in the Middle East, and was quite talkative, very friendly.
Prices are steep for thieves, in some places, I hear! He said nobody usually stole, however. I wouldn't doubt that, though, it's beyond extreme. Man hides behind the State, with man's commonly broken law, to leverage power. That kind of need for control has always been lacking in actual control, no matter how hard it's applied.
Even religion is used to that end. Anyways, he was generally cool. Not once did I feel the need to tell him, "I like you, but your religion stinks." And in fact, he was blameless, even generous. To me, love a person as yourself is to respect their life. If in that life, their religion is part of vows they've taken, then it's before Him. And then it's also quite a working contradiction to say to that person, "I'm loving you, but rejecting all things you ever knew, with Him." Determining a person's position as an enemy or proponent of God isn't found by labeling their teachings as seemingly inherently satanic, or adversarial. It's by finding value in them, from A-Z, in planting and in the harvest.
God impels a believer to know Him. If a person can be found in walk, lock, and step with Him, I don't believe they will find a moniker of any value, negative or positive. Faith in Him equalizes, with n0 tilt.
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
****** ** ****** ** ****** **who walk according to the law of the Lord.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119&version=NIV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+1:19-27&version=NIV
Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
