Love the sinner. Hate the sin.

My son asked me what this meant. I put it in an extreme context for him. We hate murder, but we love the human-being that committed the murder. He didn't believe that was possible for any one to be able to love a murderer. I told him this is precisely what mankind has to learn to do if we are to survive on this planet.

Saint Paul said, 'LOVE BEARS ALL THINGS".
Jesus said, "JUDGE NOT THAT YOU MAY NOT BE JUDGED."
Heraclitus said, "TO GOD ALL THINGS ARE FAIR AND GOOD AND RIGHT; BUT MEN HOLD SOME THINGS WRONG AND SOME RIGHT. GOOD AND EVIL ARE ONE.
Hawthorne said, "MAN MUST NOT DISCLAIM HIS BROTHERHOOD EVEN WITH THE GUILTIEST."

Regarding the above, Joseph Campbell wrote: there is a deep and terrible mystery here, which we perhaps cannot, or possibly simply will not, comprehend; yet which will have to be assimilated if we are to meet such a test. For love is exactly as strong as life. And when life produces what the intellect names evil, we may enter into righteous battle, contending "from loyalty of heart": however, if the principle of love (Christ's "Love your enemies!") is lost thereby, our humanity too will be lost.