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The Opposite of Hate
There is a lot of hate about these days. And people debate what the opposite of hate may be. One thing’s for sure. Hate is not the opposite of hate. We see it every night in the “news”. More hate. Once, people at least pretended to need a cause to kill. Now, for some, sheer hatred seems to be enough justification to kill and crow about it. Those who do so condemn themselves by their actions. I don’t need to use the word, for everyone to know what I’m talking about. Terrorism. It’s the new abnormal. And the acts of terror driven by hatred have a purpose. Their purpose is…
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Tragedy
It is one of the saddest realities of our modern world that prejudice and hate often rear their ugly heads through acts of gross violence. Yet that is precisely what happened this month. Unfathomable bigotry took the lives of 77 innocent men, women, and youth in Norway. To dwell excessively here on the evil ideology that precipitated this tragic event would be to give undue attention to the deluded ideas of a shameless man who has, according to many accounts, perpetrated this evil for the explicit purpose of advertising his shocking racism. We cannot play into his scheme. So even as we peremptorily reject and condemn the violence and its…
