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Monday, March 03, 2008

Is hating Hillary Clinton a sin?

Jesus told his followers to love your enemies, but does that include Hillary Clinton? Isn't there an exemption from the rule when it comes to Clinton?

Interesting editorial at Christianity Today.com about the hatred religious people have for Hillary Clinton and the conflict it creates when Christians are suppose to love their neighbor and not be so quick to judge.

In "Hating Hillary", the magazine examines the inconsistency between the Christian belief that you should not judge others and the reality that many devout Christians can't help but hate this woman.
"No small amount of jokes and hate-marketing attests to how far the 'Hate Hillary' demographic stretches: T-shirts, bumper stickers, voodoo dolls, and 'No Way in Hellary' BBQ aprons are now among the items you can purchase to advertise your anti-Hillary stance. On the nonprofit side, scads of websites dish on Hillary's supposed crookery, while bloggers invent new derogatory nicknames, such as Hitlery and Hilldabeast. We seem to simply enjoy hating Hillary."
The magazine makes the argument that Christians may be committing a sin by their non-stop bashing of Mrs. Clinton.
While the loudest political voices this election season will keep only a loose rein on their tongues, evangelicals do well to ponder the Bible's insights into the mysterious yet profound connection between a person's heart and mouth: "The things that come out of the mouth," says Jesus, "come from the heart." Which is why Paul says, "Now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips" (Col. 3:8). Biblical psychology assumes not only that the words of our mouths reveal the state of our hearts, but that words have power to shape the heart—for better or worse.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

not surprising from the liberal CT mag...Jim Wallis and Rick Warren must enjoy this spin...

Concerning Chillary, i'll stick with Psalm 97:10: "Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked."

Anonymous said...

Merle Haggard wrote a song that was flattering to Hillary. So I felt compelled to counter with this:

The Other Side of Hillary
Dr BLT
copyright 2008
http://www.drblt.net/music/OtherSideHill.mp3