Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About Religion (Updated)

Hey, Christian! How Many Of Jesus' Moral Stands Do You Approve?

Take The Test!

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-many-of-jesus-moral-exhortations.html

The New Testament's Most Penetrating Discussion Of Love?
1 John 4:7-21
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-new-testaments-most-penetrating.html

Pastor John Piper "discusses the vexing problem of God ordering the mass killing of every Canaanite man, woman, and child."
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peterenns/2012/07/john-piper-on-why-its-right-for-god-to-slaughter-women-and-children-anytime-he-pleases-and-why-i-have-some-major-problems-with-that/

"Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/is-bible-more-violent-than-quran-npr.html

Worst Bible Passages

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/worst-bible-passages.html

Mistakes In Scripture: When The Bible Gets The Bible Wrong

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/mistakes-in-scripture-when-bible-gets.html

Religion and Perfectionism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/religion-and-perfectionism.html

Yeshua Excoriates Fellow Pharisees: "The Woe Passages"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/08/yeshua-excoriates-fellow-pharisees-woe.html

"Love Your Enemies. Do Good To Those Who Hate You," Luke 6: 27-42

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/love-your-enemies-do-good-to-those-who.html

Biblical Literalists: Please Weigh In These Passages From Deuteronomy And Acts

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/biblical-literalists-please-weigh-in-on.html

Biblical Literalism And The Cultivation Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/biblical-literalism-and-cultivation-of.html

Greed Is Good:: A Dangerous 300 Year History Of The Idea That Greed Is Good
(The Role Of Usury)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/greed-is-good-300-year-history-of.html 

"Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy," A Glimpse Of True Christianity
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/amish-grace-how-forgiveness-transcended.html

What's Wrong With The Abrahamic Religions: 

Absolutism, Scriptural Inerrancy, Bloodlust

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/07/whats-wrong-with-abrahamic-religions.html

"Why The Bible Belt Is Delusional"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-bible-belt-is-delusional.html

"God Enjoys The 10 Plagues Way Too Much"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/god-enjoys-10-plagues-way-too-much.html

Mercy Is Not Fair

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/mercy-is-not-fair.html

“For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.”
James 2:13 

"But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Matthew 9:13

"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."

1 Peter 4:8

"Terror And The Other Religions"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/terrorism-and-other-religions-juan-cole.html

"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/religion-that-needs-fear-to.html

"Bad Religion: A Compendium"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/bad-religion-compendium.html

Good Religion And Bad Religion
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/bad-religion-and-good-religion.html

"Terrorism And The Other Religions"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/terrorism-and-other-religions-juan-cole.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Christianity

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html

"Thomas Aquinas On American Conservatives' Continual Commission Of Sin"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/thomas-aquinas-on-american.html

"Shark Attacks Rise Worldwide: Risk Assessment and Aquinas' Criteria For Sin"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/shark-attacks-rise-worldwide-risk.html

"Pax On Both Houses: A Compendium Of Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/my-favorite-martin-luther-king-quote.html

"Martin Luther King Jr. On Hatred, Violence, Love and Jesus "The Way"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/martin-luther-king-jr-on-hatred.html

"Pseudo-Success And The Undoing Of America"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/03/pseudo-success-and-undoing-of-america.html

"Faith, Hope, Charity And Divine Desperation"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/faith-hope-charity-and-divine.html

Deism And Founding Father Links

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/deism-and-founding-father-links.html

If Our Founding Fathers Were All Good Christians, 

Why Did They Say These Things?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/if-our-founding-fathers-were-all.html

Jefferson's Advocacy For Protection Of Jew, Gentile, Mahometan, Hindu And Infidel

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/jeffersons-advocacy-for-protection-of.html

ISIS And The Inquisition: The Shadow Side Of Religion. Why Does Belief Do This?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/isis-and-inquisition-shadow-side-of.html

"What ISIS Really Wants" And How The Patriarch Abraham Appears To Be The Instigator

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants-and-how.html

Christianity's Bedrock Commitment To Torture: Remaking "The Faithful" In God's Image

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/christianitys-bedrock-commitment-to.html

Seldom Sermonized Bible Quotes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/seldom-sermonized-bible-verses.html

"Who Were The Tax Collectors And Shepherds In Jesus' Time"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/shepherds-from-bruce-cockburns.html

"First Stone: It Is Not Enough To Do What Is Right..."

Sola Fide

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/first-stone-it-is-not-enough-to-do-what.html

Pope John XXIII: "Pacem In Terris" And World Government 

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/11/pacem-in-terris-and-world-government.html

American Divorce: Mainstream Christians Divorce More Often Than Mainstream Atheists"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/american-divorce-mainstream-christians.html

Christian Defence Of Slavery Preached From The Pulpit

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/christian-defense-of-slavery-preached.html

"Prohibition, Noah, Ham And The Curse Of Canaan"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/11/daily-dose-111111-prohibition-and-curse.html

"American Theocracy," By Kevin Phillips

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/american-theocracy-by-kevin-phillips.html

Pope Francis: Quotations On Finance, Economics, Capitalism And Inequality

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/pope-francis-on-finance-economics.html

Pope Francis: One Of The Most Powerful Critiques Of Capitalism You Will Ever Read

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/pope-francis-one-of-most-powerful.html

Pope Francis: "This Economy Kills"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/pope-francis-this-economy-kills.html

Catholic Social Teaching

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/catholic-social-teaching.html

Pope Francis: Moving The Moral Compass 
From "The Individual" Toward "The Collective"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/pope-francis-moving-moral-judgment-from.html

Pope Francis Takes On The Catholic Bureaucracy

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/pope-francis-takes-on-catholic.html

Pro-Science Pontiff: Pope Francis On Climate Change, Evolution And The Big Bang

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-pro-science-pontiff-pope-francis-on.html

Love Covers A Multitude Of Sins

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/love-covers-multitude-of-sins.html

Greed Is Good: A 300 Year History Of The Idea That "Vice" Is "Virtue"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/greed-is-good-300-year-history-of.html

Pope Francis: What Christianity Looks Like When Believers Realize "God Is Love"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/pope-francis-what-happens-when-jesus-is.html

Santa Claus Is More Real Than You Are

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/12/real-presence-of-santa-claus.html

"The Thinking Housewife's Passion For Pope Paul IV Who Initiated Jewish Ghettos"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-thinking-housewifes-passion-for.html

"The United States Of Homosexual Imperialism," By Laura Wood, "The Thinking Housewife"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-united-states-of-homosexual.html

The Thinking Housewife: Marriage, Divorce And Absolutism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-thinking-housewife-marriage-divorce.html

Frog Hospital Prompts Discussion Of Certitude, Absolutism And Responsibility
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/correspondence-with-fred-owens-re.html

"Totalitarian Absolutism And The Thinking Housewife"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/totalitarian-absolutism-and-thinking.html

Laura Wood, "The Thinking Housewife," On "Bergolio's Ideology"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/laura-wood-thinking-housewife-on.html

"The Thinking Housewife" Slags Pope Francis As "Sloganeering Papal Impostor"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-thinking-housewife-slags-pope.html

Time To Expunge Catholicism Of Traditions & Texts That Represent God As A Terrorist
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/time-to-expunge-catholicism-of.html

Biblical Literalism: Not Only Impossible But Destructive Of Meaning And Souls

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/biblical-literalism-not-only-impossible.html

UNC-CH Professor Bart D. Ehrman:

Biblical Exegete And Former Christian Evangelical

The Bible and Textual Analysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman

"Trial By Ordeal: The Bloody Old Testamental Roots Of Modern Justice"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/trial-by-ordeal-bloodthirsty-roots-of.html

"Trial By Ordeal: Alive And Well Into The 17th Century"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/trial-by-ordeal-alive-and-well-in-17th.html

Indiana's "Religious Bigotry Law": The Re-Legaliztion Of Segregation

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/indianas-religious-bigotry-law-re.html

Diane Rehm Interviews Islamic "Heretic"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/diane-rehm-interviews-islamic-heretic.html

Dependable Miraculousness: "Seek First God's Justice And All Things Will Be Added Unto You"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/dependable-miraculousness-seek-first.html

Christian "Just War Principles" Established c. 500 A.D. Vs. America's "just war" Tradition

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/christian-just-war-principles.html

"El Problema Con Los Gringos Es Que No Saben Sufrir," Lino Nunez Huerta

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/el-problema-con-los-gringos-es-que-no.html

"From Jesus to The Christ"

PBS Frontline 
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/frontline-online-clickable-icons-with.html

The Seven Deadly Sins

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-seven-deadly-sins-create-your-own.html

The Seven Deadly Sins Mapped And Measured By Kansas State University Geographer

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-seven-deadly-sins-mapped-and.html

Capitalism, The Greatest Productive Engine Ever, Is Destroying The United States

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/capitalism-most-powerful-productive.html

Capitalist Pigs And Avarice

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/capitalist-pigs-and-avarice-deadly-sin.html

Capitalist Pigs And Avarice: The Pathognomic "Deadly Sin" Of Our Age
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/capitalist-pigs-and-avarice-deadly-sin.html

"Christian Conservatism: "The Saved," "The Damned," "The Rich," "The Poor"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/01/christian-reactionaries-saved-and.html

Bibliolatry... And How To Live Happily Ever After
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/bibliolatry-and-how-to-live-happily.html

NC Church Members Face Charges In Abduction-Beating Of Gay Man

http://www.wral.com/nc-church-members-facing-charges-in-beating-of-gay-man/14278407/

"Trial By Ordeal: The Bloody Old Testamental Roots Of Modern Justice"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/trial-by-ordeal-bloodthirsty-roots-of.html

"Trial By Ordeal: Alive And Well Into The 17th Century"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/trial-by-ordeal-alive-and-well-in-17th.html

Images Of Yeshua, A Nazarene Carpenter

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/images-of-yeshua-nazarene-carpenter.html

Tolkien, Lewis, Rowling And The Redemption Of The Modern World
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/tolkien-lewis-rowling-and-redemption-of.html

Ayn Rand Really Hated C.S. Lewis And Championed Child Murderer, Dismemberer, Edward Hickman

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/ayn-rand-really-hated-cs-lewis-really.html

Compendium Of Pax Posts On Abortion

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/compendium-of-pax-posts-on-abortion.html

Ivan Illich Compendium

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/ivan-illich-compendium.html

"The People's Priest," An Ivan Illich "Obituary" From "The American Conservative"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-peoples-priest-ivan-illich.html

St. Thomas Aquinas, Natural Law, and the Common Good /// Aquinas Quotations

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/st-thomas-aquinas-natural-law-and.html

"The Catholic Voice In The Torture Debate," John A. Coleman S.J.

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-catholic-voice-in-torture-debate-by.html

"The Christian Paradox: How A Faithful Nations Gets Jesus Wrong"

Bill McKibben

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/bill-mckibben-christian-paradox-how.html

The Last Time Christians Had Balls They Believed In Martyrdom
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-last-time-christians-had-balls-they.html

"The Rapture" And The Enforcement Of Happiness
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/01/new-yorker-cartoon-rapture-and.html

Priestly Pederasty, Celibacy And The Catholic League

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/priestly-pederasty-celibacy-and.html

"War, Peace And Political Manipulation: Quotations"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/10/war-peace-and-political-manipulation.html

"The Story Of Jonah And The Whale" 

Brilliantly Retold By Anne Herbert

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-story-of-jonah-re-told-by-anne.html

1. University Chaplain Fired For Preaching Compassion Over "American Sniper" Violence
   http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/midamerica-nazarene-universitys-mnu.html

Compendium Of Pax Posts: "The Seven Deadly Sins"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/compendium-of-pax-posts-on-seven-deadly.html

Conservative Christians And Global Warming

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/conservative-christians-and-global.html

"Interstellar," Myth And The Christian Buddhism Of John's Gospel

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/interstellar-myth-and-christian.html

"Are Highly Religious People Less Compassionate?"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/are-highly-religious-people-less.html

Chesterton: Distributism Posits Need To Distribute Private Property Until Everyone Has Enough

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/chesterton-family-is-test-of-freedom.html

Time For An Economic Crimes Tribunal? (Pope Francis Expresses Solidarity)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/time-for-economic-crimes-tribunal-pope.html

Pope Paul IV, 1476 - 1559. Proto-Nazi?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/pope-paul-iv-1476-1559-proto-nazi.html

Pope Francis: There Are Two Ways Of Having Faith: We Can Fear To Lose The Saved," Or...

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/pope-francis-there-are-two-ways-of.html

The Civil War: White Christians Slaughtering One Another On A Scale ISIS Can Only Dream Of

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-civil-war-white-christians.html

The Evangelical Persecution Complex (Projection's Finest Hour?)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-evangelical-persecution-complex.html

Psychological Projection

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/projection-psychology.html

Psychological Shadow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)

"What ISIS Really Wants" And How The Patriarch Abraham Appears To Be The Instigator

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants-and-how.html

"The Politics Of Horror In Conservative Evangelicalism," '09 Outstanding Academic Title"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-politics-of-horror-in-conservative.html

Chesterton: Plenty Of Books Denounce Lust But What Of Those That Encourage Greed
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/chesterton-plenty-of-books-denounce.html

Carnival Lust, Capitalist Greed And Counter-Productive Christian Finger Wagging
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/carnival-lust-capitalist-greed-and.html

"The Thinking Housewife," Laura Wood: An Interview With Pope Francis
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-thinking-housewife-laura-wood.html

Why The Catholic Church Must Change

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/why-catholic-church-must-change.html

"The Thinking Housewife," Contraception And "Why The Catholic Church Must Change"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-thinking-housewife-contraception.html

My Correspondence With A Christian Fundamentalist: "The Best... Becomes Evil"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-correspondence-with-christian.html

Liberalism: "Satanic Rebellion Against God?" (The Thinking Housewife)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/11/liberalism-satanic-rebellion-against-god.html

"The Thinking Housewife" And Why The Catholic Church Must Change

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-thinking-housewife-contraception.html

"The Thinking Housewife" And St. Catherine Of Siena

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-thinking-housewife-and-st-catherine.html

The Inquisition Executed Its Last Victim In 1826, A Spaniard Who Taught Deism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-inquisition-executed-its-last.html

Christian "Just War Principles" Established c. 500 A.D. Vs. America's "just war" Tradition

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/christian-just-war-principles.html

Tom Weston S.J. Best Thing Ever Said By A Jesuit
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/tom-weston-best-thing-ever-said-by.html

Psychological Projection Indicts "The Good Christians," Not The People They Indict

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/projection-psychology.html

Saint Peter Was Not Pope

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/saint-peter-was-not-pope.html

"Good Romans" Considered Jesus' Torture Necessary For Imperial Safety
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/when-jesus-was-tortured-good-romans.html

Americans, Especially Catholics, Approve Of Inquisitorial Torture

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/americans-especially-catholics-approve.html

"The Catholic Voice In The Torture Debate," John A. Coleman S.J.

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-catholic-voice-in-torture-debate-by.html

On Balance, Torture Is Massively Counter-Productive And Self-Destructive

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/on-balance-torture-is-massively.html

Pope Benedict XVI's Question: 'Can Modern Warfare Ever Be Just?'

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/pope-benedict-xvi-questions-if-modern.html

G.K. Chesterton: "The Anarchy of The Rich"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/gk-chesterton-anarchy-of-rich.html

G.K. Chesterton and Warren Buffett's Class War

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/gk-chesterton-and-warren-buffetts-class.html

G.K. Chesterton On Charity, Hope And Universal Salvation

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/chesterton-on-charity-and-universal.html

G.K. Chesterton Quotations... And More

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/chesterton-quotations.html

Pax On Both Houses: Compendium Of G.K. Chesterton Posts
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/10/pax-on-both-houses-gk-chesterton-posts.html

"Love and do what you will."
St. Augustine

"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image 

when it turns out God hates all the same people you do."
Fr. Tom Weston S. J.

Dorothy Day: “I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/dorothy-day-i-really-only-love-god-as.html

1 John 4:7-21

New International Version

God’s Love and Ours

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A+7-21&version=NIV

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testifythat the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-new-testaments-most-penetrating.html

The above passage translated in "The Message":

God Is Love

7-10 My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God. 11-12 My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love! 13-16 This is how we know we’re living steadily and deeply in him, and he in us: He’s given us life from his life, from his very own Spirit. Also, we’ve seen for ourselves and continue to state openly that the Father sent his Son as Savior of the world. Everyone who confesses that Jesus is God’s Son participates continuously in an intimate relationship with God. We know it so well, we’ve embraced it heart and soul, this love that comes from God.

To Love, to Be Loved

17-18 God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love. 19 We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first. 20-21 If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can’t see? The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You’ve got to love both.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A+7-21&version=NIV

"Pope Francis Links"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-links.html