I Love to Hate
by Pastor Mark Downey
June 15, 2014
Scripture Reading: Romans 13:10-12
This is a message guaranteed to irritate politically correct liberals or even kosher conservatives who pretend to be defenders of a moral culture, when in fact, both contribute to the decadence and corruption of society. My original title was “A Time To Hate' from the book of Ecclesiastes and then changed to 'Hate Is A Family Value,' but I decided to settle on the proactive title 'I Love To Hate,” because it's self explanatory (which I'll explain in a moment) and logical. It would be a contradiction to say I hate to hate. That's like Bill Clinton saying, “We will not tolerate intolerance.” Let me say from the onset that there's nothing wrong with hate unless someone comes along and redefines it to mean something malicious, malevolent, sadistic or satanic etc, which is exactly what totalitarians do in a dictatorship; they can make words mean whatever they want; and it becomes a war of words. Orwell exemplified this in his classic novel '1984' with three slogans: war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. If they make sense, you're either a master of doublethink or have stopped thinking altogether. The last thing a dictatorship wants, is it's subjects hating what the regime wants you to think.