LOVE SINNER AND HATE SIN IS A LIE FOR IT CALLS THE SINNER STUPID AS A PERSON
Religion holds that one ingredient of sin is error or unwisdom or stupidity. It is said that as evil is missing the mark an error of judgement is necessary for evil to be done.
Love the sinner and hate the sin is clearly rubbish when you see how it works
with the stupid person. “You are a smart non-stupid person but you just believe
this stupid thing.” It is patronising and looking down on the person while you
try to look good and nice. You are still stressing that the person is being
stupid in at least one thing. That is what matters right now. You are saying to
them that they are ridiculous in one thing but that by implication is saying,
“Heaven knows what else you are a crank or a fool in.” It questions them
completely even as it pretends it does not. Love the sinner and hate the sin is
nothing more than a command to lie about loving the person and embracing them
and welcoming them.
Catholicism is using its boast that it can love the sinner and hate the sin as
an excuse for looking good while encouraging hate towards persons. It is Church
teaching - ask it! - that our actions define us, and we can be held accountable
for them. We are accountable for our actions - our actions cannot be accountable
for themselves. Thus the sinner is the sin. The Church agrees with the Batman
line, “It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.” Thus the
Church is lying that it loves sinners and separates sin from sinners to hate the
sin.
The Church tells a deliberate lie that fools some. It
says that if somebody is seriously sick you hate the sickness because you love
the person. So it pretends this idea supports the notion that you can judge and
hate a sin and love the sinner. But sin is deliberate. Sin may be described as a
sickness in a sense but it the problem is not that. The problem is that it is
deliberate. If sinners are sick then they need pity and help and should be
forced into Heaven against their will for they don't know what they are doing.
Punishment would be a sin and the evil person and the good person should get all
the same benefits as if both are saints. It is twisted to use the suffering of
others to justify a hypocritical doctrine.
The truth is the Church does not believe in loving sinners and hating sins at
all - it believes in hiding its hatemongering.
We do not make a separation between the person and her good works so why should
we make one between her and her sins? And how could we anyway? And a sin is not
an entity that is separate from the person it is part of the person for sin is
in the will and the will is part of the person, one of the main parts. Sin is
the will and the will is the person so the person can be said to be the sin so
to hate the sin is to hate the person who commits the sin as well. Sin is evil
will that is expressed in an act and is not the outward act. Thus sin is
shorthand for sinner.
To say you must love the sinner and hate the sins is to say that you must also
separate the person from their good works. That would be a vile and inhuman
stance to take.
The doctrine of loving the sinner and hating the sin is a wilful lie - and a
smarmy one.
Many Christians do not see "Love the sinner" and "Hate
the sin" as compatible. They settle for saying that paradoxes are a
reality and by some mystery God can truly love the sinner and hate that person
at the same time and so can those who are given grace from God to be like God.
They live with the contradiction but they cannot deny they hate sinners.