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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)I think there are a lot of Christians that are full of hate for everyone not just like them. That includes hatred of other Christians who do not hold exactly the same belief. They also hate LGBTQ people, people who have different color of skin than they do, people who don't use English as their first language, people born in certain other countries, etc.
What I personally see more of from Christians is a smug, prideful sense that they are simply superior to other people. Such Christians display almost a glee at their own self-defined sense of holy superiority. There are such Christians in my own family, in fact. My experience from many years of observation is that such Christians don't actually HATE the people on whom they look down, they just see those people as inferior. Some observers of such behavior might see it as hatred, but I don't personally think it is true hatred.
I also want to say that I see many other Christians who are truly kind, generous people who speak out against hate and bigotry. Such Christians seem to pay more attention to what Jesus said about how to treat other people than how holy and perfect they themselves are.