It's NEVER OK to hate
A famous Jewish writer was asked by a dying Nazi concentration camp guard to forgive him, as a symbolic Jew. The writer refused. The penitent died without that absolution.
He asked religious leaders all over the world whether he should have complied with the man's request. All the Jewish scholars and rabbis said "no." All the Christian ministers and priests said "yes."
This article is on the Muslim genocide against Christians in Sudan. In it, a Jewish author argues that it's OK to hate the practitioners of this crime; that only the good and the innocent cannot be hated.
As a Christian, I can't agree- and neither, I trust, would the Christian victims of the ongoing holocaust in Sudan, who die unaided by U.N. intervention or substantive aid ( like most of the victims of mass murder since that useless and impotent organization was founded).
It's OK to have evil in the abstract. It's OK to hate evil deeds. But it's never OK to hate people. Not the murderers, and not the ones who stand by and let them get away with murder.
He asked religious leaders all over the world whether he should have complied with the man's request. All the Jewish scholars and rabbis said "no." All the Christian ministers and priests said "yes."
This article is on the Muslim genocide against Christians in Sudan. In it, a Jewish author argues that it's OK to hate the practitioners of this crime; that only the good and the innocent cannot be hated.
As a Christian, I can't agree- and neither, I trust, would the Christian victims of the ongoing holocaust in Sudan, who die unaided by U.N. intervention or substantive aid ( like most of the victims of mass murder since that useless and impotent organization was founded).
It's OK to have evil in the abstract. It's OK to hate evil deeds. But it's never OK to hate people. Not the murderers, and not the ones who stand by and let them get away with murder.
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