“Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. ("When forgetting the rules of the game" )” ThinkingLifeFreedomLifetimeValueRhythmRulesForgettingGameInstillFollowBreakingOfferPreventBreak FreeCocoonPermeateCherry PickingScaringSubtlyExhausingRavishmentCeremonialInner RulesSecuring Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Pride has quite a bit to do with hatred. In many a case in which one hates another, one subconsciously begins patterns of cherry-picking and selective hearing: he continues to look only for things about the other person which he can use to justify his hatred, things which will then make him feel less guilty about hating someone. In this regard, hatred is not so much an emotion as it is a decision.” DecisionPrideHabitHatredGuiltSubconsciousStubbornGrudgeCherry PickingSelective Hearing Book:Healology Source: Healology
“We cherry-pick our favorite traits and words of Christ and run with them - amplifying some parts while silencing others - to suit our personal visions and preferences. In doing this, rather than the true and the whole, we create caricatures and distortions of His character - false Christs made in our own images - and are left with no mystery as to why He would say we must deny ourselves daily in order to follow Him.” JesusChristianityTheologyFollowing JesusImage Of GodFalse ReligionCherry PickingImage Of ChristDie DailyUnderstanding Of God Author:Criss Jami
“I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just as we treat ethics in any other works of ancient literature. It is a vacuous exercise to pick and choose which atrocities were really ordained by any gods and which were not. We should have a zero-tolerance view of any text or collection of texts that at any time endorses genocide, misogyny, and other atrocities. We always judge ancient texts by modern ethical standards, and the Bible should not be treated differently.” AtheismMoralityEthicsGenocideMisogynyMythsSpecial TreatmentAncient LiteratureBiblical MoralityCherry PickingGenocide In The BibleBiblical EthicsSpecial PleadingMisogyny In The BibleAtrocities In The BibleCherry Picking Scripture Author:Hector Avalos