By Jody Lee
radio host, author, political and lifestyle blogger, media consultant
Published: June 10, 2009

Trying to assess whose hate is going to explode into violence and whose is not is, at the end, impossible.  We can guess, we can suspect, but we cannot know conclusively.

So to one extent or another, it is always a surprise when it does.

Just this month, one man’s hate for abortionists drove him to – ironically – kill.

Another man’s hate for Christians justified – in his mind – the killing of one soldier and the horrific wounding of another.

Today a man’s hate for Jews was such that he took a gun into the Holocaust Museum and killed a man, deeming that to be a warranted action.

In the latter two cases, there is little doubt that these men would have taken many more lives than they did, had the opportunity to do so existed.

Hatred does not exist in greater force today than it did last year, or thousands of years ago.  Thanks to technology though, we are more aware of it than ever. 

It is the nature of mankind that some will hate and, in some cases, hate to such an extreme that violence is inevitable. 

Some try to understand the haters, dissecting their lives and their pasts in search of something that makes sense, desperately grasping for some sliver of logic that can explain the nonsensical actions they take.

Some try to blame others – the killers’ parents, society, the media, anything so that – again – sense can be made of tragedy.

They are wasting their time.  Hatred will explode when and where it pleases, driven and fed by an evil that not only exists in our world, but thrives.  Its frenzied lust for souls is unquenchable and it feeds on the weak and the ignorant.  Of which there always, regrettably, plenty.

Strictly my opinion, and as always, I invite yours.  Not to try to convince anyone else.  Just to vent.  I felt the need to.  I imagine some of you who read this will as well.

Do not pick apart my belief and I will not pick apart yours.  Let’s just give voice, shall we?  Part of reading and considering other peoples opinions - even when you do not ultimately share them – is part of what helps us keep ignorance at bay. 

Finally, why?  Whether the hatred explodes in the killing of a U.S. soldier last week or the killing of thousands in September 2001, why should it be allowed to exist?

Deuteronomy 29:29 – “The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

God has his reasons.  God has his plan.  Either you trust him or you don’t.  It is as simple as that.  There are some things that – for reasons known only to him – we are not permitted to know.

Hey, nobody said faith was easy.  But it is what it is.