{"id":9745,"date":"2026-05-08T22:41:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9745"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:41:49","slug":"god-didnt-make-us-to-hate-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9745","title":{"rendered":"God Didn&#8217;t Make Us to Hate Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/McManus-Dail3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/McManus-Dail3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/McManus-Dail3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/McManus-Dail3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/McManus-Dail3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/McManus-Dail3-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/McManus-Dail3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>God is not so small-minded or vindictive as to make people in order to just . . . hate them.  I mean, look at the sheer multitude of galaxies in the universe.  The membranes of butterfly wings.  The way a toddler&#8217;s teeth make the most crooked and sublime smile when they laugh.  The dreamer-upper of these things isn&#8217;t an asshole.  I just don&#8217;t buy it.  The Bible doesn&#8217;t sell it, either; while full of challenging and complex stories that do dip into the lament and wrath of God, scripture on the whole has an undercurrent <em>and<\/em> over-arc of God&#8217;s delight in God&#8217;s people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/god_didnt_make_us_to_hate_us.html\">God Didn&#8217;t Make Us to Hate Us<\/a><\/em>, p. xii-xiv<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Goslings, South Riding, Virginia, May 8, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God is not so small-minded or vindictive as to make people in order to just . . . hate them. I mean, look at the sheer multitude of galaxies in the universe. The membranes of butterfly wings. The way a toddler&#8217;s teeth make the most crooked and sublime smile when they laugh. The dreamer-upper of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,63,55,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-bible","category-delight","category-god","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9747,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions\/9747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}