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Originally Posted by Jazuela
And then we go to "judge not, lest ye be judged" and "let he without sin cast the first stone" and so on and so forth. I'm not Christian and don't buy any of this horsepucky but I know a lot of people here are. But they also seem to be the people who will cause entire organizations and film crews and actors and media employees to lose their jobs, all because ONE person they don't like, did something they didn't approve of. Just seems very hypocritical to me.
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Many people misinterpret many Biblical quotes, especially, "judge not lest ye be judged."That is saying that we should judge people's actions but not the people themselves. God is the only judge of people.
To me, insulting people by calling their beliefs "horsepucky" is unnecessary and provocative. I don't know why you'd want to do that.
I think that it's up to each of us to decide who and what we want to support. I sometimes have difficulty separating artists from their work and their actions outside their art. My disagreements with many of these people a mostly political. Still there are some that I can watch and enjoy and others that all I can think of when watching them is has nothing to do with their performance or artistic ability.
I think that it depends on how vocal these people are about their political beliefs and how much media attention they get because of it.
My signature line is perhaps my favorite quote in history. We all need to be able to have differences of opinions and stop all the name calling and assigning motives to other people's reasons for thinking the way they do.
We all sin. We should all recognize that. But when a person continually sins and shows no remorse, there is no reason to support that person's business or art.
Some people have engaged in bad behavior and have apologized for it and have gone out and done a lot of good for the world. Some people accept this and some people will hold a grudge against a person like this forever. That is up to the individual, but I believe that not forgiving hurt the person who doesn't forgive more than the person that needs forgiveness.
We can disagree without having to be nasty, but we also can choose who we want to do business with.