Hate the Sin,
Love the Sinner.
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hate the bad deeds not the person who did the deeds
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“Love the sinner, hate the sin,” means that all people are good creations made in God’s image, and all may be saved by God’s grace, but that sometimes they do hateful things. On the surface it sounds like familiar Christian theology, summed up in a hyperbolic “Love this, hate that” formula.
But. Beware. The hate is real, and of a particularly sinister kind.
You most frequently hear this phrase used to sum up the evangelical position on homosexuality. Its use is problematic. It attempts to divorce the person, “the sinner,” from his or her sexual nature, which is deemed “sinful,” and from his or her romantic partnership, which is deemed “a sin.”
The counter-position of many LGBT people is that their sexual nature not only can’t be distinguished from their essential identity, but that their sexual nature is not, by any intelligible ethical standard, sinful. If their sexual behavior hurts no one and draws them closer to someone, what sin has been committed?
When I hear this phrase, I often see it as being used, almost flagrantly, to justify hatred. Not only does it misunderstand the essential harmlessness and frequent goodness of homosexual desire. It dresses bigotry as “love.” I would characterize this sort of love as frighted, superstitious, thoughtless, ignorant, shallow, competitive, coercive, condemning, self-righteous, legalistic, perfectionist, repressive, destructive. Its prejudicial application draws on arcane biblical proscriptions whose contemporary value no theologian has satisfactorily proven—though, boy, have they tried.
Christians love everyone and everything; they love the providential creation in its totality. They love the spotted sheep for her spots; the gay man for his gayness. Hatred is the sin. It alienates us from neighbor, the creation, God. Not everything is to be permitted (murder, theft, negligence, abuse); but, nothing is to be hated.
This phrase tries to force a loophole. It allows a few evangelical tightwads the appearance of loving-kindness, while simultaneously they hate. And so, the tightwads would have their cake and eat it too. Which, I suppose, makes them the cakeboys.
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