Also, Avi – there are different kinds of reshoim. Hating them in general is NOT sinas chinam, as it is not baseless; that’s chazal and rishonim across the board. We don’t daven for them to die, as bruriah convinced rebbe meir that yitamu chataim means that the sin should perish, and not the sinner. We daven that a regular sinner does teshuva. That doesn’t mean we love him or do chessed for him. If someone is not oseh maysah amcha, he loses all privileges of a jew, but he’s still someone we hope comes back.
The kind of reshoim that rabbi kook is advocating for….are far worse. We daven three times a day for apikorsim to die. Yes, die. Be destroyed forever. That’s the bracha of leminim ulmalshinim. If someone refuses to say that bracha, we remove him from the amud and don’t let him daven, because we understand from his actions that he is an apikores or that he sympathizes with them.
Did rabbi kook say that bracha? I hope so. For his sake.