Is it OK to Hate Someone?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2017
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
What do we need to do as Catholic Christians to convey that the message of our religion is one of pure love? So often we misrepresent what it means to be Christian, causing many people to just see judgment when they see us upholding our principles. In this episode, Fr. Mike emphasizes how important it is to live what we believe, and that means loving people so much that even when they harm us, we continue to love them.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm your name, Father Mike Schmidt, and this is Ascension Presents. |
| 0:11.2 | So recently I was talking with someone who they said to me, they said, so I believe |
| 0:18.4 | that something like abortion is wrong. |
| 0:20.2 | I believe in the church teachings. |
| 0:22.0 | They might even say that I believe abortion is wrong. |
| 0:26.0 | But then they said, but I could never hate someone who had an abortion. |
| 0:30.1 | And I was like, oh, yeah, don't, right, yeah, don't do that. |
| 0:34.6 | They said, no, I just, you know, and I believe in the church teaching on marriage, but I |
| 0:38.8 | could never hate someone who, in this other situation, I'm like, wait, wait, wait, where |
| 0:43.4 | did you get the idea that to believe in a certain doctrine or to believe a certain |
| 0:48.1 | creed also means you have to hate someone who failed to love to that creed or failed |
| 0:54.6 | to believe in the same creed or failed to profess that same creed? |
| 0:57.7 | Like I just thought, wow, we've done such a bad job as Catholic Christians of witnessing |
| 1:03.0 | to the fact that we can hold on to what we truly believe is the truth without falling |
| 1:09.0 | into that trap of coming across like we hate someone. |
| 1:13.9 | Do you know that Jesus actually commands us to not hate? |
| 1:18.0 | Now, he doesn't even just command us to not hate someone who disagrees with us or who |
| 1:22.4 | fails to live up to some standard. |
| 1:26.8 | He forbids us to hate even those who have heard us. |
| 1:30.8 | So this whole standard is not just kind of like, yeah, you know, you should accept people |
| 1:35.0 | or you should tolerate people or you should kind of just be okay with other people not |
| 1:39.4 | believing what you believe. |
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