hunting for traitors

I don't know about the words love your enemy, most of the people in these religions probably didn't even know anybody in another religion, and your enemy was more likely to be in your own religion than in some other religion.

More bible study.  We don't know what Jesus said, we only know what his prophets, disciples, apostles, whatever, said like sixties years later and we don't know who they were.

I'm going to continue with my thesis that all religions say nice things.  It's what attracts people to them, but then when people implement them they have a tendency to become nasty because people are nasty.

But wait a minute, if people are nasty then why are they attracted to religions that say nice things?  Um, I think at the most grassroots people are nice, but then at some level the organization becomes big and begins to gain a little power and then maybe some people within the organization become corrupted, or maybe outsiders move in seeing some gain to be made out of the organization. 

A little vague there, but I think that's how you get from a bunch of slaves and women being nice to the poor to the Vatican army.  Seems like there are some holes in that, maybe they can be considered over the weekend.

Then there is this other thing, you get an organization with a purpose and everything goes along swimmingly until maybe it takes a turn that some of the members don't like, or maybe they get some other ideas and then the organization isn't as strong as it used to be.  And maybe that's okay, maybe there is something to be gained and if more opinions are allowed then that broadens the base and the organization can grow,  And maybe that's not okay because now the message is not so pure and the zeal is lessened, and maybe the thing to do is toss out or punish the people different than the herd, that's where I think we get out heretics.  People are never less attractive than when they are rooting out traitors.