People that are okay to hate…
Sometimes when I read Catholic blogs, it seems there are some people it’s okay to hate; well, if not hate, just ridicule, mock, and laugh to scorn - without ever quite saying they are going to hell. Has anyone else noticed that? I’ve done it myself! (I’m so sorry everyone!)
So who are the people it seems okay to hate? (This will be the short list):
*On an occasional Tradititionalist blog, it can read as if some of these people,who long for the Tridentine rite to be re-established, would like to burn their opponents at the stake, along with charismatics and liturgical dancers. If I didn’t know better, I might be conviced it is okay to hate Novus Ordo Catholics and liberals - especially if they are Bishops.
*Women who insist they are Catholic and yet participate in illegal ordinations of women.
*Religious women who are into wicca and seem to promote goddess worship, or just happen to be “Mertontonians” who are interested in Oriental forms of meditation.
*Homosexuals, whether they be flagrant and active, or those who identify as Catholic and try to live according to Church teaching - some people think they are all sodomites, or faggots to be burned.
*Priests and nuns who don’t wear habits and live in their own apartments or houses.
*Abortion providers and anyone associated with, or condoning Planned Parenthood policies. Even those who know little or nothing about this subject, albeit who endorse political candidates that are pro-choice, pro stem cell, pro whatever - it sometimes sounds/reads like it’s okay to hate them.
*Black people, referred to as ghetto, white kids referred to as Goth or punk - any kid with pants below their butts, or girls with everything hanging out, and all people tatooed and pierced beyond recognition.
* Definitely, child molesters.
*Terrorists and Islamic extremists.
*Zionist Jews.
*Masons.
*Communists.
*Oprah and Rosie O’Donnell.
*Former or current employers, employees you don’t like.
*The husband or wife, mother or father, who left you.
*Nancy Pelosi or Hilary Clinton. (That’s a hard one, can I choose both?)
*The person who abused or raped you.
*Anyone who mocks or disrespects you.
So that is just the short list. When you read blogs, or listen to some good Catholic people gossip about others, you hear a lot of detraction and calumny, scorn and contempt, and even some hate speech. At least I hear it…read it between the lines…whatever. I heard it said once or twice, “hate the sin - love the sinner” - that’s a hard one too.
“But what I say to you is: offer no resistance to injury…” - Matthew 5:39
“Treat others the way you would have them treat you: this sums up the law and the prophets.” - Matthew 6:12
