Why would you choose NOT to love your neighbour in the first place?
Well, quite.
So why should anyone give a rats about Jesus, who stated the bleeding bloody obvious?
Stating the obvious isn't quite obvious is it now, when we witness even today the atrocities done on others? Yeah so um... that's the reason why.
He wasn't the first, wasn't the last, and didn't get people to change (folks have been killing in his name pretty much ever since). So why should anyone care that he said these things?
A different conversation slipped in there but regardless of whether he was the first or not, just like the above...the universal message being portrayed is...
...everyone
should give a rat's .
So back to the conversation I was particularly engaging in, if you care to keep track bilby.. the choice between 'loving ones neighbours' versus damnation was bewildering, at least to me, when atheists are making arguments and excuses to oppose anything to do with Jesus ( his teachings love your neighbours ,enemies etc.) regardless...which the alternative to that is...damnation.