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review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. To love a thing is to hate its opposite. I love the

innocence and purity of children, therefore I utterly hate pedophilia. I love my wife, and therefore I hate to see her

mistreated. For far too long, the evangelical Christian has been told that he may not hate anything.

We are trained to not love as we ought because we are trained to never hate. If the Christian has a passionate love for the

truth of God's word, the goodness of God's justice, and the beauty of holiness, he will necessarily

have an intense hatred of the lies, injustice, and sin. So in this episode, we're talking about

the godly virtue of hatred. Yes. We need to restore it.

That we have to be able to actually hate those things which God hates. And in our current

evangelical system and certainly our current pagan cultural system, hatred is off the table. It's not

something that is permitted. What do you guys think? Well, I mean, I think that hatred is off the table. It's not something that is permitted.

What do you guys think?

Well, I mean, I think that hatred is promoted a lot in trash world.

To be honest, it's just there's certain things that you're allowed to hate.

That's right.

And I think that a lot of times, even in the church, you're allowed to hate those things.

Yeah.

And, you know, there's so many examples that we could use, but it's, it's not, it's, it's a misplaced, uh, virtue, I think, in the church,

right? Right. Right. No, that's a really good point. You are absolutely, not just, uh, permitted,

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