| IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
That's where I disagree with the religious view (well, and the masses who hate criminals). In my opinion it makes no sense to hate someone just because there is something wrong with him. That's like hating someone who happens to be born handicapped. Or at least I think that it's pretty much mandatory, as a religious person, to hate evil. I may be wrong.
Edit: I mean, it would make more sense to feel sorry for people who generally make "evil" decisions, and to expect them to go to heaven. |
Well, on a theological point of view, for Christians, we are called not to judge and to mercy.
k, so heaven isn't something that is earned by good things a person does, it's earned by the saving power of Christ. In essence the only thing that can cause one to not go to heaven is to refuse the salvation. That's it.
It's mandatory to hate evil, but not to hate the person choosing it.
But to get back to the topic, we are something and that something can generally choose what is profitable and what isn't. But ultimately if we were to rewind and start all over again, it would all happen the same way. Whatever causes a person to make bad decisions I call evil you call it a pattern of the mind, but in the end if it were to happen again, it would all happen the very same way. Could the metaphysical break this fate? maybe, but I'm not sure that would answer your question.
