Is it OK to hate organizations?

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You can hate what they do and what they stand for, you just have to be careful not to extend hatred toward people.
 
I think one must be careful with any kind of hatred. Of course it’s bad to hate a person, but even hating an organization or an evil cannot be good for the spirit. Dwelling on such hatred tends to exclude (or crowd out) love from one’s heart. One might argue that hating an evil is equivalent to loving the good, but where is love at the moment of hatred?
 
I don’t see why hatred is necessary.

“Hatred” is an emotion. You can know something is evil and fight against it with all your heart without introducing the emotion of hatred towards the thing. It would be far better to fight against it with a disposition of love towards those who are harmed by the thing.
 
Hating individuals is not appropriate. Hate the sin, not thexsinner.
 
I think trying to stop something with love is better than hating it. Hate comes from fear. Jesus tells us not to be afraid and to love everyone. Organizations may make us sad on how they do things but love and prayer can go along way.
 
In economics at the college level you will learn that people will do things anyway. I wondered if their service was protecting the lives of failed mothers that risked infection from a clothes hanger abortion. That’s why it’s tough, people do what they are going to do and it sucks. That’s why it’s better to use your frustrations to help an organization that helps single mothers or those contemplating abortion to get some free therapy. There’s good you can do instead of hate, keep your eyes open for the opportunities, they do exist. Better than putting more hate into existence. We have a hard enough time getting rid of the evil in this world that we already have.
 
Yes, and sometimes you should. Organizations like Planned Parenthood, which literally murder children for profit, are deserving of hatred and ridicule. To work against such organizations is righteous.
 
vallancec said:
I think trying to stop something with love is better than hating it. Hate comes from fear. Jesus tells us not to be afraid and to love everyone. Organizations may make us sad on how they do things but love and prayer can go along way.
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“Hate comes from fear”. A nice yodic saying. And true, though probably not the way you think.
Proverbs 8:13 tells us
“To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.”

So hate can come from fear. Fear of the unknown would make hate bad. Fear of the Lord would make hate good…
 
“Hate is indeed caused by love, since everything that is hated is hated because it threatens to impede in some way the good that we love. This is not problematic, even though hate and love are contraries. For though they are on the same level (simul) conceptually (in ratione), they are related as prior and posterior in reality. So the love for one thing always underlies hate for another, i.e., “every hate is caused by love,” though not vice versa.” (Alfred J. Freddoso)
 
Jesus was able to become anger because of His Godly. He was in perfect control at all times. But to harbor hatred within ourselves is very dangerous because it will eventually be turned inward, against one’s very self which will then result in self-destructive behavior like heavy smoking, drinking, drug use, self-anger, and so on.
 
Robert_Sock said:
Jesus was able to become anger because of His Godly. He was in perfect control at all times. But to harbor hatred within ourselves is very dangerous because it will eventually be turned inward, against one’s very self which will then result in self-destructive behavior like heavy smoking, drinking, drug use, self-anger, and so on.
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Not of you consciously turn it towards constructive ends. Art, work ethics, and activism against the thing you hate are all good uses of this zeal which prevent it from doing harm.
 
See Paul

Romans 12:9-21 (read the whole…)
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Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good…*

(of course we are to love our enemies…ie the persons in those organizations…)

*Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
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ewtn.com/v/bible/search_bible.asp
 
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