Jesus seems to hate some things. Do you? Is hate good?

...So who are the Pharisees today, and who are the moneychangers? I would argue that religious leaders who abuse their pulpits for political propaganda, promote violence, or push a hateful agenda fit the Pharisee profile. Also, those who take the cross as a sign of salvation and cash it in as a merchandising opportunity are our contemporary moneychangers...

since you are just making an analogy, not based on Judaism, I'll leave you to your version of knowledge.

Jesus called a spade a spade.

It’s interesting to note who Jesus didn’t judge: first, Jesus did not judge the woman caught in bed with a man who was not her husband (John 8:1-11), but rather chose this opportunity to teach us the association of judgment and hypocrisy. He announced, “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.” Thus, in an opportunity of condemnation, Jesus chose to love. His expression of love occurs while acknowledging her wrongdoing but choosing forgiveness. Jesus makes a pattern of this. Another example of this is when He met the Samaritan woman at the well, who was divorced and living with a man (John 4:7-28). What is so telling about this verse is that Jesus bestowed love to one who was not a Jew but a Samaritan, someone from a religious community considered apostates. (The Samaritans were formerly enslaved by the Persians, taken from Israel at the end of Hoshea’s rule in 722 BC [2 Kings 17:1-2].) So who is Jesus judging?

According to the Gospels, Jesus did not refrain from judging, but he chose two distinct groups of people to target with his judgment: religious leaders who were hypocrites, and those who profited off the sacred.

Jesus really had it out for the Pharisees, whom he admonished for judging others, giving false teachings, and acting in pride. He reserved such phrases for them as “hypocrites,” and “den of vipers”! Pretty strong language for the Prince of Peace. Jesus also grew furious at the sight of the money changers at the Temple for their attempt to profit off of the religious observance of others.

So who are the Pharisees today, and who are the moneychangers? I would argue that religious leaders who abuse their pulpits for political propaganda, promote violence, or push a hateful agenda fit the Pharisee profile. Also, those who take the cross as a sign of salvation and cash it in as a merchandising opportunity are our contemporary moneychangers.

Your view of Jesus makes him out to be a real asshole.

Jesus called a spade a spade. Folks don't like being called out on their behavior. There is a HUGE difference between judging, hating, and simply pointing out. Jesus was know for associating with the worst of the worst. Why? Certainly not to judge them. He called them on their bad behavior and LOVED them. Hanging on a cross next to criminals, they begged for forgiveness and he offered it freely.

Jesus doesnt hate anybody.

Thanks for this. We basically agree.

Greatest I am wrote:

Thanks for this. We basically agree.

Don't read too much into that. I recognise that Jesus "hated" cruelty, hypocrisy, moneylenders in the temple, and so on. At the same time (and this is important) he loved the cruel or hypocritical people and the moneylenders. He proclaimed that forgiveness and regeneration was available to them as much as anyone else. The word "hate" is a strong one, and today it has nasty connotations - consider "hate speech" for example. Don't get too hung up on that word. Don't read my "agreement" as you call it as any kind of endorsement of any agenda you may have (do you?). I'll check out your posting history and see if you seem to have one. [I did. "I am proudly an Islamophobe". Sorry. You are crazy.]

What is crazy is thinking you can hate sin while loving the sinner.

If you are being raped, will you love your rapist?

Jesus hated and so should we.

Regards
DL

Bishop Burnet, an important primary source for the restoration, once wrote to his friend that King Charles II had "a strange notion of God's love." According to Burnet, Charles said: "The only things that God hates are that we be wicked and that we design mischief." I'm sure the good bishop had a much, much longer list of the things god hates.

Source in King Charles II, Antonia Fraser, London, 1979.