Hate is a pretty strong word.  The Miriam-Webster defines hate as “1. a: intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury. b: extreme dislike or disgust: antipathy, loathing”.  I bring that up because people are getting away with misappropriating the word and lessening it’s true impact and in the current atmosphere of opposition to Christianity we Christians are receiving the brunt of the false implications of the word; we are being mis-labeled as “haters”.

For instance, do I  hate women because I am opposed to abortion?  Do I have a hostility and aversion to them because I view life as beginning at conception? Do I feel disgust at them or loathe them because I believe in the sanctity of life in the womb? If you listen to the news and the rhetoric of so many liberal organizations (as well as politicians) you’d believe I did hate women.

The same goes for the folks caught up in the LGBT hysteria. Because I disagree with them and believe that their lifestyles and beliefs are caused by mental/emotional disorders I’m said to hate them. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course, but you wouldn’t know that to hear people speak of my attitude.  According to those who stand on the opposite side of my beliefs, I hate people. We have got to fight, as Christians, the combat that stereotype as “haters”.  Why is it so important that we not let our society view us as haters (besides the fact that it is just so blatantly false)? The answer is simple:  hate speech.

In a nation that was founded on the wonderful principle of free speech we are hurtling toward the abyss of certain speech being free no longer. If our society can successfully brand opinions and beliefs as “hate speech” they can quieten any and all voices they so choose. You better believe that the voice of the church will be the first causality. This is a battle for the soul of a nation.

Say good things about your Savior and about His Church.

Bro. Tony