| DaRev said: Understandable, but I think you might be complicating things a bit. For example, if I said to you that we should kill all black people or kill all white people, could you be friends with me, would you need to have a discussion face to face with me to make up your mind of whether to befriend me or not? Jesus said love your enemies, do you agree with that, and based on such other teachings, could you be friends with Jesus? |
Racism is an idea that most people strongly disagree with, so obviously that discounts racists as potential friends. Loving your enemies is an idea that people strongly agree with (assumption of course), but that doesn't automatically guarantee that a person holding that belief would be a good friend. There are other factors at play when deciding if someone is friend material. Just because a person is satisfactory with factor, that doesn't mean they would be satisfactory overall. On the other hand, if a person is horribly bad because of just one factor, then that can be a good reason to not be friends with him/her even without getting to know him entirely. There's a difference.
