I firmly believe this to be a moral problem because on issues of homosexuality the idea of love the sinner, hate the sin appears to be inherently contradictory. For instance, if one has homosexual tendencies and those tendencies actualize in concrete behavior and are unforced, then the Christian notion would imply that both the sin and sinner are actually hated. Since homosexuality is rejected in Christianity it is safe to say that many Christians who hate the lifestyle would in fact hate the person within the lifestyle. Ypu cannot separate lifestyle from the person just as you cannot separate hip-hop from one who is immersed in the culture of Hip-Hop.
I find this piece of Christian philosophy problematic.
The post is psychobbble. It's not "safe to say that many Christians who hate the lifestyle would hate the person". The anti-Christian left spends way too much time dwelling on the concepts of hatred.
Meh. I don't have a problem with the concept of "love the sinner hate the sin". I'm not a Christian, but I also don't hate Christians. I just get into arguments with them from time to time. The ones I consider true Christians usually don't have a problem with it.
Whitehall, I agree that the left is often consumed with notions of hate. That's probably one of my biggest beefs with them, that so much of their agenda seems fueled by envy and resentment, and for all their talk of tolerance, many seem the least capable of it.
Be that as it may, it is unfortunate that so many Christians make such easy targets for it. I can see past it for the sake of civil discourse myself, but the Christian rank and file have a difficult time escaping what looks and quacks like hate.
As painful as it may seem, the best course of action for Christians is to try and remain above the fray and do their best to be the shining example of tolerance, love, charity (not of the governmental kind, mind you), and hope. Some try and succeed in that endeavor, while many unfortunately come across as the worst kind of hypocrites, mostly because they come from a place of judgment while simultaneously claiming that only God can judge.
Although I am not a Christian, I can recognize how difficult it would be to be a Christian and actually live by Christ's example, while suffering the slings and arrows and turning the other cheek. But like it or not, that was a pretty big message of Christ's, and, if you'll forgive the pun, it is your cross to bear. And until more Christians are able to do that, then the concept of "love the sinner hate the sin" will continue to look like hypocrisy.
