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[color=var(--text_color_primary)]I used to think it was just the media and propaganda that was the problem. I naively thought that our divisions were artificially induced. Then I came to the realization that division is a good thing. Christ came to divide. Some people are simply wicked to the core and I have no desire to coexist with them anymore. I used to think we should just pray for them. Then I realized we need to actively oppose them. You must resist evil by force.”[/color]
St. Matthew ch 5 tells us:
"But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other:
[40] And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him..
[41] And whosoever will force thee one mile, go with him other two,
[42] Give to him that asketh of thee and from him that would borrow of thee turn not away.
[43] You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thy enemy.
[44] But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:
[45] That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.
[46] For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this?
[47] And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this?
[48] Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect."