I've read many things about the different Religions in the world and I have found one very distinctive principle of the Christian Religion that makes it very influential. This principle is similar to other religions and yet it has found somewhat a real place in the Christian religion. This is the principle of "Love your enemies".
History makes it clear that the Christian religion also has its share of mistakes, blunders, errors against humanity as a whole. Despite of these it is one of the major religions with the most influence in the world throughout History.
Maybe this is a bias opinion, but I have seen and experienced this principle at work. I was born in a place where there is a religious armed conflict up to this point in time. I grew up knowing that I am part of the Christian community and the enemy is of another religion. Civil wars come and go and in fact even at this very moment one is being waged and what I have observed is that the Christians were and are always accuse of being anti God, abusive, corrupt and so on by the enemies.
But what I always see is that Christians are always the ones who donate food, clothing, shelter, medicines and protection for those considered enemies. I can say this because my parents were there doing all the help they can to the families, children and elderly of the so called "enemies " even now. In our schools where majority are Christians we were asked to give a bag of rice and a can of sardines for the "enemies".
I always have asked myself when I was younger what do the enemies do? I haven't seen them lift a finger to help Christians but instead they condemn continuously and in some cases kill innocent Christians and display what they do to the public to instill fear.
Love your enemies is a mark of Christianity and a mark of the true Christian.
History makes it clear that the Christian religion also has its share of mistakes, blunders, errors against humanity as a whole. Despite of these it is one of the major religions with the most influence in the world throughout History.
Maybe this is a bias opinion, but I have seen and experienced this principle at work. I was born in a place where there is a religious armed conflict up to this point in time. I grew up knowing that I am part of the Christian community and the enemy is of another religion. Civil wars come and go and in fact even at this very moment one is being waged and what I have observed is that the Christians were and are always accuse of being anti God, abusive, corrupt and so on by the enemies.
But what I always see is that Christians are always the ones who donate food, clothing, shelter, medicines and protection for those considered enemies. I can say this because my parents were there doing all the help they can to the families, children and elderly of the so called "enemies " even now. In our schools where majority are Christians we were asked to give a bag of rice and a can of sardines for the "enemies".
I always have asked myself when I was younger what do the enemies do? I haven't seen them lift a finger to help Christians but instead they condemn continuously and in some cases kill innocent Christians and display what they do to the public to instill fear.
Love your enemies is a mark of Christianity and a mark of the true Christian.
