Different perspectives can easily become fuel for hatred if not carefully monitored. Topics often debated include how to save, ideas to address world hunger and global responsibility issues, national politics, morality and the question “should I wear a mask or not?” There will always be a difference of opinion, but when opinion gets poisoned with entitlement or a loss of objectivity, it gives birth to hatred.
Hatred has plagued society since God warned Cain, “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it,” (Genesis 4:7). Of course, warning ignored, Cain and Abel took a walk into a field and only one returned. What is the Christian response to hateful people? How do we create meaningful dialogue with them without reflecting their hatred with emotional outbursts or just ignore them and the real issues of our day?