I don't understand hatred. Honestly, it just confuses me. Even more confusing is hatred in God's name. (Christ refused to condemn people, after all.) I don't normally deal here witih current news events: and post-wise, I'm sorry to follow something beautiful with something rather less likely to induce serenity. But both exist in the world, and sometimes both are worth mentioning.
NIU Shootings and Westboro Baptist Church
This two-minute video is worth watching. The young man who made it, in my opinion, made an admirable choice with the tone and direction of his message. If the hypothetical incident occured, would WBC, as they have other times, interpret one person's violent actions as God's judgement against them?
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Would WBC interpret a tragic shooting in their midst as God's judgment agai nst them?
Hmm. Who knows? I think historically, in the case with witch-hunts, Crusades, pogroms, gay-baiting, and other forms of religious persecution, the same mind that can so misinterpret tragic events to others as a mandate to hate, interprets tragic events to themselves as a mandate to hate MORE.
If such a scenario were to happen at WBC, the likely sermon the next morning would be that God was punishing them for having gays in their midst.
Jon; you're probably right. I still don't get it.
No one "gets" insanity. In the end, that's what it is. But it's also a dehumanization of the victim or victims by the killer or killers. They aren't people to the murderer. This is how people can wage wars against one another, commit genocide and other crimes against humanity.(http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/the_military_art/index.html)
Hatred is repressed righteous indignation.
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