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December 02, 2006
Saturday
 
 
Samizdata quote for the day
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"Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them".

Denis Leary, comedian, actor and champion of American firefighters and emergency workers.

Comments

Why hate anyone?


Posted by mandrill at December 2, 2006 08:04 PM
Why hate anyone?

Because the world has a lot of truly loathsome people who deserve to be hated.


Posted by Perry de Havilland at December 2, 2006 09:50 PM

Oh, there's no shortage of loathsome people, but hating them won't make them go away. We should love our neighbours not because they are lovable, but because they are neighbours.


Posted by J at December 3, 2006 01:19 AM
We should love our neighbours not because they are lovable, but because they are neighbours.
How very tribal. I'm going to continue judging people on their merits, and not their domicile proximity.
Posted by M4-10 at December 3, 2006 02:44 AM
Oh, there's no shortage of loathsome people, but hating them won't make them go away. We should love our neighbours not because they are lovable, but because they are neighbours.

And loving them will not make them less loathsome. M4-10 has it right.


Posted by Perry de Havilland at December 3, 2006 05:17 AM

I win! M4-10: 1. Jesus Christ: 0.

Suddenly I feel itchy and nauseous. Probably plague of vengeful deity.


Posted by M4-10 at December 3, 2006 06:33 AM
Probably plague of vengeful diety

That wouldn't be a God that hates?


Posted by Zeno at December 3, 2006 08:55 AM

Is hate good?

Is this a Honda commercial?


Posted by Nick M at December 3, 2006 09:02 AM

"I have a dream, that someday my children will be judged not on the color of their skin but the content of their character..."


Posted by triticale at December 3, 2006 11:55 AM

J,

Who is the neighbour in Luke 10:37 and why? The robbers, the Priest, the Levite, or the Samaritan?

You're thinking of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:44, I think, which doesn't mention neighbours. Not one of the big J's more convincing arguments, to my mind.

(But not quite as fundamentalist as verses 27-30. I do wonder sometimes why you don't see more Abu Hamza lookalikes in Churches. Or maybe you're not supposed to take it seriously?)


Posted by Pa Annoyed at December 3, 2006 03:06 PM

The Pharisees.

Walking on by 24/7.


Posted by Nick M at December 3, 2006 10:23 PM

Oh, there's no shortage of loathsome people, but hating them won't make them go away. We should love our neighbours not because they are lovable, but because they are neighbours.

I'd like mine a whole lot more if he wasn't my neighbour.


Posted by James_C at December 4, 2006 05:34 AM

Na Nick! It wasn't the Pharisees

It was Dion Warwick surely!


Posted by RAB at December 4, 2006 06:59 PM
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