I’m talking about this app : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sirma.mobile.bible.android

You can always criticize lovingly, be disappointed, or even (temporarily )angry, i don’t see why hate would ever be necessary/useful to change the other one. I may be wrong but just don’t see it.

Can we dislike others while loving them ? I don’t think so, not without recognising that they have many good sides worthy of our love/protection, and not while misrepresenting them as evil/bad by focusing only on what we perceive as flaws.
You don’t help your enemies improve by correcting mistakes they made, but we’ll warn those we love since we care about them. And again we should love everyone if we believe in a christian City of God.

Interesting to add, perhaps : https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/true-spirituality-confronts-the-abuses, it’s an impression i got when reading parts of the Philokalia : these monks want to feel God by denuding themselves from their thoughts, but should they not dedicate their lives to make the kingdom/city of God descend upon our Earth instead, what ‘does the most good’/‘serves God&humans the best’ ? At least they’re abstaining from evil, which is already remarkable enough, (inter)acting is always a risk.

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    22 days ago

    This.

    Truly the difference between canon Jesus and fandom Jesus is just loving people and dropping judgment.

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      22 days ago

      I can’t help but feel that not answering to your comment would imply silently agreeing to it, so here’s my disagreement :
      Your comment wouldn’t say anything if you dropped your judgment towards what you consider “fandom Jesus”, judgment/opinions are good, but i agree that one of the teachings of the Christ was to love one another, to forgive each other and ask for forgiveness, to confess our sins, etc. Obviously to perceive&‘revel in’ God’s omnipresent light if the external conditions aren’t too dark for us, etc. etc.

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        22 days ago

        You’re allowed your opinion. I just find too much hate in the judgement from people in my life who choose to call themselves Christians, and I question if they would find themselves closer to God through embracing the commandment given to love one another, rather than mocking, excluding, and judging.