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I wanted to know who our neighbors are so that I would know whether or not I should love all people equally or differently. Knowing who our neighbors are is sufficient enough to determine the rest. If everyone is our neighbor then we must love everyone equally. If only some people are our neighbor then charity should be practiced discriminately. It appears that some people in this thread thought that everyone is our neighbor. While Bishop Williamson's letter expresses the contrary.

Well, that doesn't follow. Why should loving everyone mean loving them all equally? No one does that.

Generally speaking...liberals claim to.

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I wanted to know who our neighbors are so that I would know whether or not I should love all people equally or differently. Knowing who our neighbors are is sufficient enough to determine the rest. If everyone is our neighbor then we must love everyone equally. If only some people are our neighbor then charity should be practiced discriminately. It appears that some people in this thread thought that everyone is our neighbor. While Bishop Williamson's letter expresses the contrary.

Well, that doesn't follow. Why should loving everyone mean loving them all equally? No one does that.

Generally speaking...liberals claim to.

And we have to love them as well!

I agree

You really need to learn the Catholic faith rather than whatever it is you've learned.

Not even Jesus loved everyone the same, though he loved everyone perfectly.  Love, in this respect, is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.  You love your wife differently than you love any other person in the world.  You love your brothers and sisters (biological brothers and sisters, that is) differently than other people.  You love your children differently than other anyone else.  You love your relations in a different way than your immediate family.  You love your friends and acquaintances differently than you love the stranger that you do not know.  But you have love for all.

Who is your neighbor?  All of the people I identified above (which means everyone) is your neighbor, but you do not have the same kind of love for all of them.  On the other hand, you must have the love of all people for God's sake in your heart.  You must even have love for an armed intruder that you kill in self-defense, which, ultimately, means that you have sorrow that you were forced to kill him and sorrow that he died during the act of committing a mortal sin and likely condemned himself to hell for eternity.  

It seems that your concept of "love" is merely a sappy, emotional love--one that is often more lust than love.  If what replies you have seen on this topic make you desire to marry an "Asian woman", then you are likely beyond understanding until you mature a little more.  You seem to have the emotional state of a sixteen year old boy.

You really need to learn the Catholic faith rather than whatever it is you've learned.

Not even Jesus loved everyone the same, though he loved everyone perfectly.  Love, in this respect, is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.  You love your wife differently than you love any other person in the world.  You love your brothers and sisters (biological brothers and sisters, that is) differently than other people.  You love your children differently than other anyone else.  You love your relations in a different way than your immediate family.  You love your friends and acquaintances differently than you love the stranger that you do not know.  But you have love for all.

Who is your neighbor?  All of the people I identified above (which means everyone) is your neighbor, but you do not have the same kind of love for all of them.  On the other hand, you must have the love of all people for God's sake in your heart.  You must even have love for an armed intruder that you kill in self-defense, which, ultimately, means that you have sorrow that you were forced to kill him and sorrow that he died during the act of committing a mortal sin and likely condemned himself to hell for eternity.  

It seems that your concept of "love" is merely a sappy, emotional love--one that is often more lust than love.  If what replies you have seen on this topic make you desire to marry an "Asian woman", then you are likely beyond understanding until you mature a little more.  You seem to have the emotional state of a sixteen year old boy.

Hey guy. If you can't approach me in a charitable manner then bug off. I'm getting sick and tired of your attitude.

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This thread just makes me want to marry an Asian woman that much more.

Why do you say that?

It was sarcasm. I was thinking about how people are always trying to make me look stupid but in reality they are just making themselves look stupid and me mad. It also makes me realize that if I am to ever marry that perhaps I should marry someone with an above average intelligence.

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This thread just makes me want to marry an Asian woman that much more.

Why do you say that?

It was sarcasm. I was thinking about how people are always trying to make me look stupid but in reality they are just making themselves look stupid and me mad. It also makes me realize that if I am to ever marry that perhaps I should marry someone with an above average intelligence.

No one responding to you is making you look stupid.

When you say things like "this question is stupid" it sure seems that way. It is not a stupid question BTW. Bishop Williamson and St. Thomas addressed this one before as well.

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This thread just makes me want to marry an Asian woman that much more.

Why do you say that?

It was sarcasm. I was thinking about how people are always trying to make me look stupid but in reality they are just making themselves look stupid and me mad. It also makes me realize that if I am to ever marry that perhaps I should marry someone with an above average intelligence.

No one responding to you is making you look stupid.

When you say things like "this question is stupid" it sure seems that way. It is not a stupid question BTW. Bishop Williamson and St. Thomas addressed this one before as well.

I stand by my statement.  I did not make you look stupid.

You actually did but it was inevitable and deserved.

How was it deserved?

Because your question was so basic and obvious that it's inconceivable a 30 something year old man who claims to be a traditionalist wouldn't already know and LIVE the answer.