Why Does The Left Love to Hate?
Built on a love of darkness and hatred of the Light.
A person’s core belief system, the way they interpret reality and make life choices, is called their worldview. Usually, a person’s worldview is formed around what they love the most—a positive pursuit. However, we live in an age where attention and emotions—especially negative ones—are a commodity. Algorithms are created that amplify discontent and outrage because social engineers know that dumpster fires, factions, and unstable emotions keep people engaged more than almost anything else.
The result has been, instead of cultivating a genuine love of truth and justice, many young people are forming their worldviews around an aversion to something or someone they hate and making critical life-choices motivated by disdain for perceived injustices and societal failures.
America’s youth are experiencing a dangerous identity crisis. Rather than building an identity on what they love and affirm, a hyper-focus on the negative aspects of culture, politics, or religion, has corrupted their understanding of altruism and reduced their grasp of “doing good” to a preoccupation with avoiding perceived evils and enemies.
Rather than cooperating and contributing to society, this obsession with darkness has shifted their focus toward deconstructing institutions and dismantling their society. This explains the prevalence of cynical attitudes and lack of purpose plaguing many young Americans because hate and avoidance provide little motivation for lasting, constructive engagement with the world leading to an echo chamber of discontent rather than a well-rounded moral framework.
“Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’” (Matthew 22:37–40)
A biblical worldview is inherently proactive, built on serving, truth-telling, compassion, and love for God and neighbor reflecting the character of Christ. In the account of his personal journey of faith, Confessions, Augustine wrote, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in You.”
Guard Your Heart
All humans are inherently driven toward what they love, and these loves shape our perception of the world. The lesson is plainly stated in the hard truth of John 3:19,
“And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for their deeds were evil.”
While the Left is usually the first to cry out and denounce hate, the truth is, the prevailing worldview among 21st century American progressives is distorted and impoverished, and built on a love of darkness and hatred of the Light.
“For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, acts of adultery, other immoral sexual acts, thefts, false testimonies, and slanderous statements. These are the things that defile the person;” (Matthew 15:19-20)
In a deceptive and evil age, we must guard our hearts against the traps of reactionary thinking but also bear witness to a life-giving vision of human purpose that is marked by grace, hope, and love.
“Guard your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)
Do not place your faith in humanity and do not trust your heart.
By Brad Ward
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