Would you agree that hate is a slippery slope? As soon as you think it's ok to hate one group of people, it opens the door to viewing all people different than you as inferior?
2007-11-26 03:26:58 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bones, it was a Unitarian Universalist church. They even welcome us Pagans with open arms. (And I went because a freind of mine is new to the area and wanted to get out and meet people.)
2007-11-26 03:32:11 · update #1
(The sermon was not advocating hate, it was showing that hate dehumanizes people and leads to attrocities. It was also about ways to combat hate and how to increase tolerance.)
2007-11-26 03:53:24 · update #2
I believe that you've got it backwards. Viewing people as different than you is the slippery slope to hate, not the other way around.
Gassho.
2007-11-26 03:29:27 · answer #1 · answered by Skalite 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I just took that from the Unitarian Universalist Church official site (see the link)...If the preacher is spreading hate in whatever way...he or she missed the point:
Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion with Jewish-Christian roots. It has no creed. It affirms the worth of human beings, advocates freedom of belief and the search for advancing truth, and tries to provide a warm, open, supportive community for people who believe that ethical living is the supreme witness of religion.
Hate has nothing to do with religion. Fundamentalist terrorists of whatever creed (some Muslims but some Christian as well as in the old days of Crusades or Inquisition...) are preaching a God who hates: they are sick and need psychological help. My own idea of a God includes tolerance of ALL and I just cannot see HIM or HER hating anyone. And, by the way, If Wiccans or Pagans of any kind love each other in any way, they fit the bill: they are acting in a godlike fashion. Trouble starts with hate and intolerance. Claude.
2007-11-26 04:03:35 · answer #2 · answered by Quintus 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
*Hate is not a family value*
Of course it's a slippery slope. No one is inferior to the next person. You may be smarter than the next, but they might be stronger... and the next might be faster... etc... So I can't see how anyone is inferior to anyone else. Usually though, hatred is based on something childish... they're a different religion... a different race... they like the color purple... It's stupid what people base their hate on. The only thing I've found that I truly hate is peas. Those little buggers are disgusting!
2007-11-26 04:15:30 · answer #3 · answered by River 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hate as a slippery slope? Depends and what you hate. I hate sin. I still sin, but I hate it.
If you are speaking about race and groups, not necessarily, but it is makes you prideful, which is probably the worst type of sin.... When you think that God loves you more because you are white (or black). God loves all people equally, but that doesn't mean a free pass to "do what you feel like."
So if you are getting to homosexuals, you can hate the sin without hating the sinner.
2007-11-26 03:44:00 · answer #4 · answered by Arthur M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that the word "hate" can take on many different meanings depending on the situation and what you're hating. A lot of people think that the opposite of hate is love but it's not the oppisite of love is indifference. To hate someone or something there has the be a strong emotional disliking meaning some type of feeling is being conveyed.
2007-11-26 03:37:27 · answer #5 · answered by ~Cheta K.~ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree, hating any person or group of people is a slippery slope that leads nowhere good. I don't for a moment belive that God wants us to hate anyone. It is difficult for me to hear religious leaders speak in derogatory terms of anyone -- homosexuals, anti-religionists, etc. -- but I do believe that God will deal with people who preach hate in His name. However, I also believe that sin should be hated, and that it also leads to nowhere good. God hates sin, not people.
2007-11-26 03:39:06 · answer #6 · answered by Rebeckah 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree.. any religion based on the hatred of any other people is not worth looking into.. and any god who would tell someone that they are not worthy of him isn't worthy of us.
Don't you just love the UU church? It's a wonderful group of lovely people. I hope your friend finds some new friends there.
Happy Holidays, T!
2007-11-26 07:56:22 · answer #7 · answered by Kallan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is Love. Hatred is like a cancer that gets into your soul and destroys it. God is not about the destruction of your soul but rather the saving of it. God does not teach to hate anyone...only to hate evil. The Bible teaches to love one another, to do good to those who persecute you, and in so doing be an accurate representation of your Heavenly Father. We are not to like the evil deeds of people but to love the person themselves. As to inferiority, God said judge not lest ye be judged. Only God has the holiness to judge in truth and purity.
2007-11-26 03:35:20 · answer #8 · answered by loveChrist 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I would agree. Every genocide in history started with the concept that "those" people are not really human, or not God's elect, so it's ok to hate them.
From there it's just a merry hop, skip and jump to the idea that it's ok to slaughter them.
That's why I don't think fundamentalist preachers and fundamentalism in general is as harmless as some Christians purport. As long as they preach hate in the name of Jesus, they will be a dangerous and evil group.
Note that I'm not saying to hate them: only to watch out for their teachings of hatred.
2007-11-26 03:28:36 · answer #9 · answered by Acorn 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
People aren't to be hated, but I think it's very difficult to live a life without hatred of anything. I hate time, cold, hatred, money, and country music.
It's fine to hate things, but to hate living things demonstrates ignorance- a lack of understanding regarding the way the mind works.
2007-11-26 03:32:01 · answer #10 · answered by nperez0 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋