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Hate the sin not the sinner

Posted on 02. Jul, 2008 @ 1:19 pm by harvey in Culture, Language Views: 319

I was playing my Kanji Kentei 2 DS game (great review on Naruhodo) the other day and noticed this interesting sentence while being tested on how to write the Kanji 罪 (tsumi).

罪を憎んで人を憎まず。(tsumi wo nikunde hito wo nikumazu)

It translates to, “hate the sin, not the sinner.”

「罪」

I love it when proverbs match up.

- Harvey

http://www.victorymanual.com Alex

I wonder if there’s an ancient confucian proverb for, “Hate the game, not the player.”
http://www.japannewbie.com Harvey

Haaha, I love that line Alex!
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Thanks a lot for the article !

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