Using Hate against enemies is a Worse Evil than their sin!

Using Hate against enemies is a Worse Evil than their sin!

Hate, as mentioned before in an article on this web-site, will become the worst sin, next to denying the grace of the Holy Spirit.  To deny that God cannot or will not forgive us from our sins goes against the Holy Spirit who is our final opportunity to reach eternity with God.  

It is perhaps the most common verb too many people use when someone’s objections conflict with an angry person who feels no one is adept at using attitudes like theirs.  At one time in our society this attitude of which religious denomination was the closest to what Christ meant for all Christians was the only accepted path through him to heaven.  Today the importance between different churches has diminished.  What has occurred now belongs to political factions that are placing friends and families at odds with each other and will create a path of hatred for each other.  

It’s what we can call the planned option of destroying another person no matter what type of emotional damage we can develop to their psyche.  I fear that many people who foster hate as a parallel to what God uses to correct our sin have followed just what Satan enjoys; accusing God of lying when he says he is a loving and forgiving God to sinners.  It may tell us that God created some people to be evil which would make him a selective divinity and not creating everything that is good.  He looked at everything he created and said,  “And so it happened.  God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good.  Evening came, and morning followed-the sixth day.”  (Gn 1: 30 b - 31).

The generous essence of Almighty God did not and could not create anything, including mankind, as a mistake or containing any evil content in its established element of life.  Therefore, all of God’s creation is meant to be adored and respected without any semblance of hatred, regardless of any ill-contempt found within them.

Respect for the reputation of persons forbids every attitude and word likely to cause them unjust injury.  He becomes guilty of rash judgment who, even tacitly, assumes as true, without sufficient foundation, the moral fault of a neighbor; detraction, who, without objectively valid reason, discloses another’s faults and failings to persons who did not know them; of calumny who, by remarks contrary to the truth, harms the reputation of others and gives occasion for false judgment concerning them.  (CCC 2477).

To avoid rash judgment, everyone should be careful to interpret insofar as possible his neighbor’s thoughts, words, and deeds in a favorable way:  “Every good Christian ought to be more ready to give a favorable interpretation of another’s statement than to condemn it.  But if he cannot do so, let him ask how the other understands it.  And if the latter understands it badly, let the former correct him with love.  If that does not suffice, let the Christian try all suitable ways to bring the other to a correct interpretation so that he may be saved.”  (St. Ignatius of Loyola). 

The Tenth commandment requires that envy be banished from the human heart.  When the prophet Nathan wanted to spur King David to repentance, he told him the story about the poor man who had only one ewe lamb that he treated like his own daughter and the rich man who, despite the great number of his flocks, envied the poor man and ended by stealing his lamb.  Envy can lead to the worst crimes.  Through the devil’s envy death entered the world.   (CCC 2538).

St Augustine saw envy as “the diabolical sin.” ”From envy are born hatred, detraction, calumny, joy caused by misfortune of a neighbor, and displeasure caused by his prosperity.”  (St. Gregory the Great.  

Note:  among the attributes of envy is hatred towards another person.  Read and observe this tenth commandment.

Ralph B. Hathaway