This is not news. When Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation in 1517 by posting his Ninety-five Theses on the door at Wittenberg, he affirmed in the fourth thesis that salvation required self-hate. He wrote that “self-hate remains right up to entrance into the kingdom of heaven.” The original Greek word for “deny” means “to refuse to associate with.” The thought is that if you want to be Christ’s disciple, and receive forgiveness and eternal life, you must refuse to associate any longer