Righteous Hatred

 Following up on the Charlie Kirk assassination, J. R. Dunn has a post at the American Thinker entitled In praise of divisiveness in which he figuratively slaps the faces of those conservatives who say we need to reach out. Dunn says we should do no such thing, and he is correct.

The left-wing response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk is appalling, but it’s only to be expected, coming from a network of thugs, psychopaths, and their enablers.

But even more infuriating is the knee-jerk response of many in the conservative community. I’m talking about all the rhetoric concerning “divisiveness,” and “we have to reach out,” and “we need to put our differences aside and work together,” and so forth.

I won’t name names here. That’s beside the point. And in any case, the answer is as simple as it gets: No.

We do not need to “get together.” We do not need to “reach out.” We do not need “unity,” or any of the other marshmallow-soft euphemism for surrender and cowardice.

We reject all that for the simple reason that to accept it would be moral suicide.

In Psalm 5 we learn that God hates those who commit iniquity. We should also hate those who commit iniquity. Does that mean conservatives should deliver tit for tat? No, of course not. We can not become them. We can not harden our hearts. Instead, we must use the law to ruthlessly prosecute these thugs, psychopaths and their enablers. At the same time, we cannot cede any ground to them. For what have we to do with them? Does God cede any part of His kingdom to the Devil? We should imitate our LORD and savior who hates unrepentant sinners.

By their fruits ye shall know them. Among those fruits is what they do to kids:

They murder them while they’re still in the womb – and, in point of fact, after they’ve left the womb, if the abortionist messes up, after which they’re taken to an isolated room and left to die alone. They allow them to brought into the country by criminal gangs and then trafficked as peon labor, welfare profit points, and sex toys. Some of them are killed in the process, but we’re not supposed to discuss that. They drug and mutilate thousands of children after convincing them that they’re the wrong sex, all in hopes of validating a severe neurosis as a “sexual preference.”

That’s just the children. Add in how they victimize adults, and it becomes too much to bear. And yet we’re supposed to bond with, connect to, associate with this human garbage, in order to do what?

To make things better? How is that possible? How can anything good come out of collaboration with evil of this magnitude? You cannot associate with evil without being corrupted yourself. And anyone who advises this as the proper course of action has already been corrupted.

But, you say, you don't want to see people in prison for ideology. But focus here. They have not just expressed ideology, as repulsive as that is. They have taken it to the extreme of murder. But, you say, doesn't God forgive? Well, yes, if a person confesses his sins and truly repents. It has happened. For example, Bella Dodd repented of the Communist Party and her participation in it and became a Roman Catholic. Whittacker Chambers at least repented of Communism and testified before Congress.  I do not know about his religious beliefs, though. And in more recent times, David Horowitz renounced his upbringing as a Red Diaper Baby to found Frontpage Magazine.

So, yes, God forgives people who repent and have a contrite heart. And we should too. But the left has no intentions of repenting. When they commit violence, vandalize, burn, loot and other forms of uncivil behavior, they need to be punished. These are not legitimate forms of protest, they are violent acts intended to intimidate us.  Be strong in the face of intimidation and deliver righteous hatred to them.