Our favorite rebel rabbi takes on Batman Begins and bashes the commonly-believed notion all it takes to dissolve evil is a little love.
Simply put, our society is one that has a big problem with hating evil, believing that those who hate — even if its murderers and terrorists that they hate — will inevitably be corrupted by their hatred. Hatred is always a bad thing, even when directed at the cruel, the wicked and the truly evil. But will society really muster the determination to fight evil if it doesn’t hate it?
The full article explains why hating your neighbor ’cause he likes to play with power tools on Sunday morning is wrong, but hating motherf*ckers like Osama and the pervert with the notebook isn’t just okay, it’s necessary. Food for thought.
Hat tip to Jewschool.