Things that you are scared about with the new Tory Government

We have to love everyone. It takes pracice mind you, I am not perfect.
Judge a persons' behaviour, but not a person.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.

I could tell from other threads that people were genuinely upset and very concerned

How very perceptive, not to say kind of you to sense that people were not happy with the Election result, correction some people, who of course we're not perfectly capable of voicing their own opinions .
I'm sorry, (well actually no, I'm not) but I find this totally patronising.

I didnt realise that the word patronising is how some people get out of helping others.

Well it all depends . On a forum of mature, articulate, educated , politically aware and informed men and women, one expects to be able to speak for oneself.
I certainly don't feel I need help to do this any more than I need a Boy Scout to help me across the road!

So yes, patronising is exactly what I meant.

It's as though you are observing Gransnet and its members as an anthropologist would a previously undiscovered tribe, soontobe, but making an awful lot of assumptions, bad guesses and 'helpful' comments which aren't always welcome along the way!

I am practising soon but I don't think I will ever reach perfection!
How can I disassociate some crimes from the perpetrator?

Anyway, that's a red herring.

Back to your OP

It seems to me, soontobe, that your talents are best suited to help people in the form of sympathy, rather than advice. I think everyone on this forum is aware of the basics of Christianity, which you remind them of frequently, and is doing their best to be the kind of person you would like them to be. There are a lot of threads where people are telling of the tragedies which have happened in their lives. Perhaps your heart-felt sympathy and encouragement - without overt proselytising - would be of more help to them than the repeat of advice to love one another is on a thread about politics.

Jesus updated that "eye for an eye" thing, with the "turning the other cheek" bit.

Just thought I'd mention it. Can't stand it when the Old Testament gets harped on about.

jing love your turn of phrase.

I'm sure soon can quote the text word for word.

And will.

[grin

Oh, let me - remember "the devil can cite Scripture for his (or her) own purposes":

"Love your enemies; do good to them that hate you.
Resist not evil: if a man smite thee on one cheek, turn to him the other also.
Avenge not yourselves; rather give place unto wrath; and suffer yourselves to be defrauded.
If a man take away thy goods, ask them not again.
Agree with your adversary quickly, submitting even to wrong for the sake of peace.
Labour not to be rich; be ready to every good work, give to those who ask; relieve the afflicted.
Do not your alms before men.."

Last bit makes a lot of sense!

Although Matthew 5 15/16 says

"Neither do men light a candle, and put itunder a bushel, but on a candlestick; and itgiveth light unto all that are in the house.

16: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."

ana exactly! The bit, I mean. And NO, I am not asking for a detailed exegesis!

Oh come on, surely soontobe can give us the benefit of her superior Biblical knowledge?

What a lot of holy joes we are becoming on here.agree with Soutra it's time to pack in this terrified thread....... Or it could run on for years getting longer and stranger!

Ganging up on soontobe now, nothing better to do!

Take no notice soontobe.

Demo against Austerity next month.

www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/end_austerity_now_national_demonstration_saturday_20th_june?e=4f295de050c123204df7f4a5c79d8428&utm_source=thepeoplesassembly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=resonstodemo&n=2

Lots of other people scared of the Tories.

It sounds rather pathetic to say you're 'scared' of a political party though. Childish even.

Jesus updated that "eye for an eye" thing, with the "turning the other cheek" bit.
I know, I was just being contrary
Perhaps that is an alien concept to some Gransnetters

Can't stand it when the Old Testament gets harped on about.

I may not have had a Christian upbringing.

It sounds rather pathetic to say you're 'scared' of a political party though. Childish even.

I would be scared if the result had been different!

Does that make you sound rather pathetic as well, roseq?
Ask Ana.

To go back to the OP. Isn't this scary? i100.independent.co.uk/article/this-is-the-creepiest-thing-david-cameron-has-ever-said--e1q_01xlZZ