Carl Schmitt on the Christian Imperative to Love Your Enemy

[opposingshore]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book ‘Nachfolge’ (titled ‘the cost of discipleship’ in English) is an incredible meditation on this entire topic. It changed my life.

[newglof]

To love one's enemy, one must first identify one's enemy as enemy.

[ARMNIUS]

His other works like “Roman Catholicism and Political Form” also offer interesting insights on political theology

[andrebenoit]

Hence the Western preference for individualism -- end war by empowering the individual (a world of Socratic thinkers). There is even a possibility of a Heideggerian-type individualism with Mitsein at its core: the next frontier for liberal thinkers like me.

[silviamocanu]

Evil manifests in groups as colective shadow.

[RyanJJ]

This is a pretty basic misreading of the Christian message. “Loving your enemy” doesn’t mean surrender or give up to injustice or a dangerous adversary at all times and places, it simply means to note the divine spark in the other that is also in you.

[Canario_]

Sometimes loving someone means beating the sh** out of him until he comes to his sense.

Also, according to saint Tomas Aquinas noone is beyond loving, BUT love comes in a hierarchy. First God, then yourself, family, community, village, nation etc. Of course thou shall love thy enemy, but thou shall love thy community first.

[Texocracy]

The mosque.
Or, maybe even the synagogue 🤔

[Pax-Africana]

GRECO-ROMAN CHRISTIANITY OR JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY?

Given the fact that Jesus is not one of the many sons of Zeus, the god of the Greeks, and that the God of Abraham had never promised a Son to Israel but the Messiah (HaMashiak) which the Greek forgers and fiddlers translated as “Christos” as it is written:
"I will raise among them the Messiah(Christos)HaMashiak, a Prophet(Messenger) like you Moses, Him they must listen..."
Deut.18:15-19; Acts 3:17-24; Acts 7:1-30; Luke 24:25-27 and 44-47; Acts 17:1-3; John 4:24-25, Surah 3:81, etc.

So Messiah(Christ) is a Prophet in the likeness of Moses as Matthew proved it. Like Moses He stayed in Egypt. Like Moses He is Mediator of a New Covenant.

Considering that the Gospel that Paul proclaimed to the world mentions JESUS CHRIST SON OF GOD and not just JESUS.
Therefore, we can deduce that Trinity is a misunderstanding of the Pauline doxology of “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”!

Because between Jesus Christ (HaMashiak) Son of God and Jesus Son of God... there is a great philosophical and legal difference if we take for legal framework the TEN COMMANDMENTS and the social environment where Jesus was born!

[stephenoverdorf]

I’ve been told also that I must “love thy neighbor” if I am a “real Christian”. It’s another thinly veiled attempt to control men.