Mercy
The biggest amount of mercy for all should mean good living conditions in the future which presupposes supporting good and resisting evil.
The point in giving negative feedback about evil deeds is to prevent the individuals themselves or others from doing such things in the future. So if an individual which used to be evil has completely cured his bad habits and has become moral, there should be no need to punish him any longer. The removal of the punishment makes it easier to motivate the person to curing his bad behaviour. And once the person is moral, he earns the rewards of moral people and no punishments. Thus, good gets supported while evil must be discouraged in practise and not just in fine words.
Why it is good for the church to give mercy in a religious context? In punishments the individuals get more broken, so the atmosphere is less religious. With mercy the individuals get more fractureless and healthy. So giving mercy helps the church to give an example to people about what a healthy world and a healthy society are like and what the healthy individuals as parts of them are like. Giving mercy gives a model of health and fracturelessness which I equate with the goal of religion: healthy natural kind of life acoording to the soul of things, in connection with God - like it seems, that too is the human nature.
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A PARADISE MOVEMENT
I love life, happiness and things positive for happy life
- like most of the others, like You too.
That means that I support from my heart
the arrangements in the world which support good life,
moral in this sense of the word.
This is all that is needed for a better world.
(Speaking out this view is also a good way to win new friends.
It works well also wordlessly, on gesture language.)
In the light of this thought I wonder if God's mercy should mean that we should be merfifultoward ourselves, toward our true nature and let us be what we really are like, let our hearts be what they really are like. Instead of being merciful toward artificialities and sins arising from them. The so called sins arising from our true nature, from our heart should be understoood and allowed, like sexuality for example, and all kinds of things motivated by feelings.
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