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Love the Sinner, but Hate the Sin

An expression to affirm love for others even while expressing that their bad is really, truly wrong, disturbing, and often times embarrassing to be around.
I love you and value you, I really do. But I hate it when you binge drink and steal stuff from your roommates. I lose some admiration for you. I guess I Love the Sinner, but Hate the Sin.
by St. Augustine March 22, 2013
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Hate the player

1. Not the game. The game may be unfair, but it is unfair for everybody. it is not the fault of the game that humans are infinitely fallible creatures who will seek to take advantage of its loopholes at every opportunity. Every person has a choice whether to engage in ethical behavior or not. One can take the easy way out, but there are no free passes for doing so.

2. If certain people have advantages, it still does not give them the right to abuse them. As a society, we have responsibilities to each other, to lift each other up rather than tear each other down. At heart, we are all capable of good, but too often we choose to see things in a zero-sum, win-lose dichotomy where the only thing that matters is getting ahead, and blaming the system is a convenient out. Using the system as an excuse is like saying the system allows us to buy guns, therefore you can’t be held responsible for murdering someone.

3. Your anger at a certain person for cheating or otherwise engaging in unscrupulous or immoral behavior is totally justified. Do not take it lying down, and don’t let them make excuses, you are worth far more than that.

4. Inversion of the popular idiom “Don’t hate the player, hate the game”.
People always tell me to hate the game, but the game didn’t wrong me, the game didn’t force people to do anything but exercise their own ethical judgement. Therefore, I reserve my right to hate the player.
by Alex-2598 February 26, 2021
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Don't be mad at someone/something because they weren't the one that made you upset or hurt in the first place.
Ex. somebody cheating on someone, somebody losing a basketball game, etc.
Player 1: Girlfriend
Player 2: Boyfriend
Player 3: Side-Chick

Player1: * walks in on Player 2&3 having an affair *
" What the heck is going on here and who is this? "

Player 2: " Oh shoot, baby I am so sorry. "

Player 3: " Who is this!! Are you his girlfriend or something? "

Player 1: " Yes actually I am. Did you know that we were dating?"

Player 3: " No! He told me he was single and that he loved me,"

Player 1: " Well, that's ok. I don't hate the player, hate the game!! "
by anothergalfromdahood July 9, 2018
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i-hate-the-beach

The cutest tumblr user ever.
Her face is flawless along with her voice, and her body.
Follow her if you haven't already.
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Hey do you follow i-hate-the-beach?
Yeah man. She's perfect.
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You hate the song Roxanne by The Police?

I think I tried to post the lyrics here but it never went through, apparently
by Death Menace December 20, 2022
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1. A simple excuse for anything.
2. Also coined in rap, drop hate on anything but other rappers.
1. "Dude WTF?!"
"Don't hate the player, hate the game.
2. Yo' man I ain't ever gonna diss your name
Cuz I'm not hating players, I'm hating the game
by error405 August 18, 2016
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Don't Hate The Playa/Playette Hate The Game

Used by pimps and pimpettes to clear up the truth on the pimp/pimpette game/
When Gina the pimpette moved on to other guys she told the old one don't hate the playa,hate the game.
by Crasee Babee February 20, 2003
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