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I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me. Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
(Amos 5:21-24) We don’t like to think of God as hating anything. Our God is a God of love. He’s gentle and kind and caring. God doesn’t hate. In particular, the idea that God might hate our worship is something we instinctively resist. But that is what today’s passage would seem to indicate. 'I hate, I despise your religious festivals.' Strong words indeed.
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