09 August 2004, 12:19
JohnTheGreekRe: anti-hunting/john kerry/ and John The Greek?
Doc,
Thank God! I was starting to get concerned about you. People who are convinced only they know the "true" path to heaven give me the creeps.

Tom,
I don't know that I said I personally hated GWB but I don't believe that hatred requires a "personal" and direct relationship with someone or something as you suggest either. I certainly don't believe that hatred for the person can be justified under Christianity but hatred for their actions certainly can. Further, when those actions are blasphemously attributed to "being called" by God, for better or worse, hatred for the blasphemy and the blasphemer wells up inside me. I don't know that I ever claimed to be a perfect Christian either.

We are all human, of course, and these human tendencies became apparent in Christ himself on occasion (e.g., driving the money changers from the temple).
Best,
JohnTheGreek