to fear the lord is to hate evil

[Tonchi]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

Evil meaning anything that church finds unacceptable.
It could be anything. Gold earrings, body peircings, tatoos, rock and roll music Well those examples are on the extreme end but you get the idea......
Fear and hate are not useful states of mind.

This is exactly the problem I have with anybody who uses such rhetoric. They are ENCOURAGING people to hate. Hate what? Hate WHAT I TELL YOU TO. The minute a person, group, or government gets to make the rules about what you are supposed to hate and reject, you get charming social exercises like the Holocaust and Rwanda. You also get silly perversions of religious philosophy and produce stuff like the Shakers or the Mormons. And eventually you get Dubya, who by the same logic can tell an entire country that if you do not agree with his agenda then you are "Against Freedom/Pro Terrorist" and must be hated by Real Americans.