Posted on 04/12/2010 9:44:03 AM PDT by Salvation
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A voluntary act by which someone or something is regarded with bitter aversion. On the first level hatred is directed against either God or some rational being; on the second level it is directed against some quality in another but without hatred of the individual personality.
Personal hatred of God may take the form of disgust, when a person detests God because he punishes sinners. It is a grave sin because it is contrary to the justice of God. Another form is the hatred of enmity, when a person actually wished evil to God. Such hatred is of its nature diabolical, and is the most grievous of all sins, since it approximates the enmity that the devils have against God.
Personal hatred of a human being is the direct opposite of the virtue of love. Where love inspires a person to wish well to another, hatred arouses the desire to do harm or have harm befall the one hated, not as a source of possible good, but precisely as evil. The gravity of such sins of personal hatred depends on how serious the harm wished or intended, and on how deliberately the malicious desires are harbored.
Hatred or a quality in someone may be either sinful or not. If the hatred is directed only toward some evil quality that a person has, but does not touch that person, it is not sinful. It becomes sinful only if the hatred extends to the person who has some admittedly evil trait or sinful habit. Moreover, it becomes specially sinful when the hatred is directed at some virtue that a person possesses, even when the enmity does not extend to the individual personally.
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Well...I’m a sinner. I wish nothing but misery and death upon leftist vermin. I despise every breath they breathe.
I’m not about to ask forgiveness for this. Not until God does something about evil’s reign.
They say, when you hate, you hurt yourself more than you hurt the object of your hatred. It is true. I experienced this first hand. I don’t hate anybody anymore.
But I do hate lima beans. Is that a sin?
If you actually wish deadly harm to the Lima beans ... you don’t have any Roundup, do you?
Jesse Lee Peterson says that if you hate someone, he controls you. If a person induces you to hate, he controls you.
Yes, but you are not saying that you hate them!
We can bring about change by praying for those who are our enemies.
Wouldn’t it astound all of us if the leftists started to convert to conservative views?
That is so true. Hated leads into the sins against the Commandment “Thou shalt not kill.”
We can dislike someone all we want, but we cannot hate them.
LOL on the lima beans. I think you dislike them greatly. LOL!
Yes, that’s what I meant. I meant I really dislike them. The nuns taught us not to “hate”.
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