re hate the sin in article may athos rutgers edu scott prism gatech edu scott holt writes hate begets more hate never love consider some sin i ll leave it unnamed since i don t want this to digress into an argument as to whether or not something is a sin now lets apply our hate the sin philosophy and see what happens if we truly hate the sin then the more we see it the stronger our hatred of it will become eventually this hate becomes so strong that we become disgusted with the sinner and eventually come to hate the sinner though you can certaily assert all this i don t see why it necessarily has to be the case why can t hate just stay as it is and not beget more who says we have to get disgusted and start hating the sinner i admit this happens but i donlt think you can say it is always necessaily so why can we not hate with a perfect hatred in the summary of the law christ commands us to love god and to love our neighbors he doesn t say anything about hate in fact if anything he commands us to save our criticisms for ourselves so how are christians supposed to deal with the sin of others i suppose that there is only one way to deal with sin either in others or ourselves through prayer we certainly we should love even our enemies amos says to hate the evil and love the good this can t contradict christ s teaching i think we tie up both hate and love with an emotional attitude when it really should be considered more objectively surely i don t fly into a rage at every sin i see but why can i not hate it paul duggan
