So it’s “love the sinner, hate the sin,” which has been identified as hypocritical and bigoted on this forum.
Considering the source is a group that has a tradition going back centuries of punishing the sinners with torture and death when the founding principle is being without sin before casting a stone and removing the plank from your own eye, it’s sort of odd to be used as retort against people who like some of the individuals who might say it but dislike aspects of the organisation that prompts them to.
Honestly just ditch the torture porn in your holy books denounce the torture, past, present and future and get on with being happy on Sunday or whatever day is special to you.
The group you describe is the perfect opposite of Christianity. The scriptures warned that they would co-opt, and the Luciferian Mystery Babylonian priests did just so.
As for removing motes and such, we must be careful. Jesus was instructing his DISCIPLES (a special class of missionary clergy many pay-grades above lay Church members) in how they were to behave DURING his ministry on earth. He gave much more practical commands for conduct after the ministry as his last teaching before going off to be crucified. His final teachings before arrest were entirely about use of force and how it must never be employed to promote or protect the faith. Force is for the protection of one’s self, family, and community.
The “torture porn” was a very great stumbling block for me. The idea that those who miss salvation by a hair’s breadth would suffer as terribly as Stalin is shockingly offensive to any human sense of Justice. Nonetheless, Christ vowed many times that there would be a BINARY selection, that those who failed would be cast outside of this universe to suffer eternal agonies, and that this punishment would be PERFECTLY JUST. A possible and very satisfying resolution to this dilemma is the realization that our Creator can control the SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE of eternity. Those who just miss might experience the fire for a few seconds, Stalin for VERY much longer. All could know that, no matter how long their personal experience is, like Zeno’s paradox, it will never come to an end.
You’ve got the right attitude about Sabbath days. Eat, don’t eat, observe, don’t observe, but whatever you choose, do it for the glory of The Lord.