This is one of those automatically controversial topics. Jordan J. Ballor made an entry on it at Power Blog bearing the same title as my post.
I don’t have a major problem with the intention of this article. Loving the sinner, but hating the sin is a very Christ-like thing to do. The problem I have is that so many claim to do this, but very few do. We use the term “sinner” in a special sense–love the sinner (guy who sins much more than I do), but hate the sin (stuff that’s badder than what I do!). We despise the person because we can’t dissociate certain activities from the persons who do them. We classify as “sins” differences in personality or things we happen not to like.
Other than that, this is good advice! 🙂
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I sometimes get the feeling that those who use the phrase “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin” are trying to convince themselves to do exactly that. In reality, some are saying “I hate both”.