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Why can't we all just take it easy anymore?

What ever happened to live and let live? When did people stop following the rule that if someone wants to know your beliefs, they'll ask. Otherwise leave them alone?

Update:

Being your brother's keeper does NOT include trying to control their beliefs. It means to look out for their safety and their needs, more of a charity perspective, so you are off topic, bro.

Update 2:

Besides, Cain killing Abel was in regards to a disagreement the two of them had and jealousy. What I am talking about is peacable coexistence instead of the rampant disease of "big-brotherism" which is invading every aspect of life globally, from religion to neighbors, to government, to coworkers, etc.

Update 3:

However, "judge not" goes right along with what I'm saying and so does "picking the beam out of your own eye before you worry about the speck of wood in the other guys" that you talked about. Repair the world from where you are standing first. Start with the "man in the mirror" first. Once you're perfect, then start looking at others. (Except the kids you might be raising - that IS your business and some people need to focus on them more.)

Update 4:

And, Neela, some of you people who believe I need to be found or taught the truth seem to have bigger problems with your own moral standards. Where does it say in the bible that you need to hunt people down and disturb their peaceful existence in their home, or disrupt their precious few 30 minutes of their lunch break at work and stress them out before they have to go back to their desk every God blessed day? Jesus wouldn't do that to people, and in fact he had the people come to him EVERY time. So the whole 'missionary' thing and the forced conversion thing and the pushy doorknocker thing is being done differently from his pattern anyway. Let the people come to you and live as an example of what you believe, publicly and privately so you can be a beacon of what you represent. The proseletyzing method is more like launching missiles into people's yards and is very, very rude and un-christlike.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I'm with you, I am tried of people trying to convert me, if I want religion I will find it I don't need people trying to convince me that theirs is the best

  • fnyunj
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    That went out the window pretty early on in Genesis.

    When Cain killed Abel, and God asked him where Abel was, and Cain answered; "am I my brother's keeper?" - - - and the lesson we're supposed to come away with is, "Yes, you are."

    Never mind all the other places in the Bible where it says to judge not lest ye be judged, and remove the plank from your eye before pointing out the speck in someone else's.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Some people need to be found or taught the truth. Maybe not everyone whos looking knows where to start so they wait for others to point them in the right direction.

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