If Jesus preached about love, why do his hardcore followers preach hate?

Question

I'm not particularly religious, but i do think Jesus lived, and he was a great human being, who like Ghandi and John Lennon, preached love and peace. I think he was a great man, but he was not 'God'.
Yet I have personally encounted a number of fundamentalist Christians who preach nothing but hatred of catholics, Muslims, gays, liberals, Jews, agnostics, Buddists,Hindus, women, etc, etc.. Where in the New testament did Jesus preach hate?
Where did Jesus say its okay to hate and harm others?
Jesus advocated helping the poor, healing the sick, feeding the hungry- yet these right wing Christians I have met oppose any social programs to help the poor- I know one fundamentalist Christian who hates the poor. I dont get it, why do they worship Jesus, if his views do not mirror their own?

Answer 1

Truth is, Jesus did preach about hatred.

He taught that His followers would be hated on account of Him.
He taught us to hate sin.
He taught hyberbolically that we should hate our family members in order to follow Him.

Answer 2

Please don't compare Jesus to John Lennon.

You have PERSONALLY encountered a number of fundamentalist Christians who preach nothing but hatred? How do you define "personally encountered? By chats on the internet? I seriously suspect many of the "Christians" on this site are athiests trying to make Christians look bad. Same with some of the hateful "Democrats" & "Republicans."

I have NEVER encountered someone who had any seriousness about Christianity who preached hatred of ANYONE! To use homosexuality as an example, the conservative Christians I've know may have seriously felt homosexuality was a sin, but they did not want any harm to come to any of them. The worse gay-bashers I've ever encountered were not religious at all. They were only "Christian" in the sense that that's the box they would check off on a questionare.

Yes - Jesus advocated helping the poor, healing the sick, feeding the hungry. But that doesn't mean he would have wanted the government to be in charge of it. And 50% of the "evil" rich man's income being confiscated to pay for it! (That sounds more like Robin Hood than Jesus Christ!)

You have obviously not known very many Christians.

Answer 3

We don't preach hatred. He preach truth. Jesus did teach peace and love however he didn't shy away from the hard topics. If you were on the battle field and knew the placement of landmines would you tell someone who was getting ready to step on one or would you say nothing so that they could be happy doing whatever they wanted? That is what Christians are doing when we preach about false religion and homosexuality. We see a spiritual landmine that could destroy the soul. We try to warn them against that.

Answer 4

I'm a Christian and I agree with you 100% but just know that you can't look at a handful of us and think we are all like that. Those people who hate and judge other people may be calling themselves Christians but they are not. Real Christians are not judgmental and love everybody no matter what their religion, status or sexuality.

Answer 5

Roman Catholicism is #1 in the major branch of Christianity



Christianity began in the 1st century AD as a Jewish sect, and shares many religious texts with Judaism, specifically the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament (see Judeo-Christian).

There is a diversity of doctrines and practices among groups calling themselves Christian. These groups are sometimes classified under denominations, though for theological reasons many groups reject this classification system.Christianity may be broadly represented as being divided into three main groupings:

1) Roman Catholicism: The Roman Catholic Church, the largest single body, includes the Latin Rite and totals more than 1 billion baptized members.

2) Eastern Christianity: Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, the 100,000 member Assyrian Church of the East, and others with a combined membership of more than 300 million baptized members.

3) Protestantism: Groups such as Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed/Presbyterians, Congregational/United Church of Christ, Evangelical, Charismatic, Baptists, Methodists, Nazarenes, Anabaptists, Seventh-day Adventists and Pentecostals. The oldest of these separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century Protestant Reformation, followed in many cases by further divisions.

Estimates of the total number of
Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in this category, but it seems to be unquestionable that Protestantism is the second major branch of Christianity (after Roman Catholicism) in number of followers.


Wikipedia:
Some Protestants identify themselves simply as Christian, or born-again Christian; they typically distance themselves from the confessionalism of other Protestant communities[11] by calling themselves "non-denominational" — often founded by individual pastors, they have little affiliation with historic denominations. Others, particularly some Anglicans, eschew the term Protestant and thus insist on being thought of as Catholic, adopting the name "Anglo-Catholic."[12] Finally, various small communities, such as the Old Catholic and Independent Catholic Churches, are similar in name to the Roman Catholic Church, but are not in communion with the See of Rome. The Roman Catholic Church was simply called the "Catholic Church" until other groups started considering themselves "Catholic." The term "Roman Catholic" was made to distinguish the Roman Catholics from other groups.[13][14]

Restorationists, are historically connected to the Protestant Reformation,[15] do not usually describe themselves as "reforming" a Christian Church continuously existing from the time of Jesus, but as restoring the Church that they believe was lost at some point. Restorationists include Churches of Christ with 2.6 million members, Disciples of Christ with 800,000 members,[16] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with 12 million members,[3] and Jehovah’s Witnesses with 6.6 million members.[17] Though Restorationists have some basic similarities, their doctrine and practices vary significantly.

Answer 6

Jesus taught to love our enemies, not lies. we are able to love Catholics and nonetheless hate the corrupt faith they persist with. coaching if reality be recommended a ability of showing love. Jesus stated (relating the apostasy of the Catholic Church), "come out of her, my human beings, lest you share in her sins, and lest you acquire of her plagues" (Revelation 18:4). i grew to become into raised Catholic. yet while i began out looking out the numerous lies that the RCC teaches and has based its ideals on, i began out searching for the actuality -- i began out reading the be attentive to God on my very own. .

Answer 7

Well, you know....if the love thing isn't working, then they have to go for the heavier stuff, like fire & brimstone.

Yeah..that'll work.

I hear ya.