For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.
Jesus's first commandment was to love one another.
Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.
Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.