Speaking Ill of the Dead

There is no scripture that says "we should never speak ill of the dead." This concept was based on paganism, the concept that spirits walk the earth and could harm us, or the idea of reincarnation. Paul warned believers about certain people, those warnings remain in the Bible to this very day for everyone to read, even though these people are long dead.

1 Timothy 1:18-20 "18 This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, 19 holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith, 20 among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme."

When we tell the truth about those who have gone before us, to discredit their evil lives and the legacy of destruction they left, we are doing the will of God, that is to warn others not to validate these people in any way.

Hugh Hefner was a wicked man of mass destruction of the soul. He spend all his life destroying the marriages and souls of many to be able to engage in the opulent lifestyle of debauchery that he enjoyed all the way to the end of his life.

All his money was earned through the sale of filthy magazines and businesses, degrading the culture of the United States as well as the rest of the world.

He was twice divorced and three marriages, the third marriage was at age 86 to a 26 year old. He had one thing he loved in life and it was deviancy.

We should no more say "R.I.P" to Hugh any more than we would say it about Hitler. Both people were full of evil that served only to destroy millions of people. Anyone who would "grieve" at the death of the wicked are validating their evil. We do not have to celebrate their death, but to grieve is to invalidate Christ.

Psalm 34:16
"The face of the LORD is against evildoers, To cut off the memory of them from the earth."

Ezekiel 3:19
"Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself."