In this episode Catholic Apologist Trent Horn interacts with President Trump and Protestant Joel Webbon’s rhetoric about hating our enemies.

Even in the Church oxymorons

I only ever felt myself to be something akin to an object of Christian’ “hate” decades ago in some ‘Trad’ circles when their famous lay leaders, (not the average Traditional priests or Churchgoers), acted as if they were the only real magisterium; demanding near total idiosyncratic conformity of their (?) flock.

Ostracization and detraction were their main weapons.

But what Trent talks about here goes further and is worse.

“Triple Murder”

St. Vincent de Paul teaches,

“Detraction is a triple murder: it kills the one who commits it, the one who listens to it, and the one who is the object of it.”¹

“Malicious gossip and hatred delights in the troubles of another. It is often manifest, sometimes very subtly, by the sins of whispering and detraction. The apostle John warns:

“He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness.”— 1 Jn. 2:9

We Christians— no matter how nice, proper or “successful” we may outwardly appear to be to others on Sundays— are not immune to this grave sin, John tells us.

Malicious gossip: Even revealing perceived or supposed sins  to others is vicious. Some do this even while pretending to ask for prayers for the ones they secretly hate. This is especially vicious.

We are warned by the Lord… Continue…

+ Are we not all sinners? Continue…

Augustine View on Love and Warfare: “Love, he argued, is fundamentally an inward disposition (voluntas benevolentiae, the will to seek the good), which can be preserved even when one undertakes severe external actions, such as punishment or warfare.

In sum, Augustine does not conceive of love for one’s enemy as a fleeting emotional sentiment but as a deliberate act of the will, rooted in divine grace, which seeks the eternal good of the enemy – even when, in the pursuit of justice, it may temporarily require the use of force.”

— Love for Enemies in Augustine’s Ethics By Omid Moludy

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