re: #101 CuriousLurker

I know I was kind of hard on you yesterday, but please understand that I knew the shit you’re seeing today was coming. What makes it even worse is knowing there’s an entire industry dedicated to promoting & maintaining the anti-Muslim fear & hatred. This is something I deal with seeing every single day, even if I try to avoid it. To make matters worse, I’m utterly powerless to do anything to change the behavior of the people whose bad actions are blowing back on me and other Muslims. It’s incredibly frustrating.
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One of the reasons I have become taken with trying to talk about how Jesus taught people to live rather than how to believe is hiding here. My own faith has made a hash out of our day-to-day ethics by it’s idiotic presumption from the Reformation that faith alone will suffice. Sola Fide combined with the literal view of scripture that sola scriptura commonly inspires has created a Christianity that is utterly divorced from the daily tasks of living right - of doing onto others as we would have done to us and not doing to others as we would not have them do to us. Faith without living right - “works” - is a dead thing.

“He has told you, O mortal, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?”
Micah 6:8