RELIGIOUS BELIEF MAKES HATRED MORE FIERCE

 
Hate is the urge to hurt another person just because you want to see them hurt. Most who discourage hate argue that it is to be avoided for it gets too easily out of control and your perception gets distorted more and more all the time as it becomes a habit. Your view of others becomes polluted and bitter. Most people see hate as a Pandora's Box and this is their main reason to oppose hate. Such a view suggests that hate is not bad in itself as long as it can be kept within boundaries. This makes you suspicious of those who claim to believe in hating the sin and loving the sinner - they are trying to smugly hide their hate and are examples of passive aggressive hate. And there are people who seem - who seem! a seem does not amount to an are! - capable of restraining hate. Incredibly, religion claims to be good while it makes the desire to hurt sin or hurt people far more fierce.
 
God is supposed to be the only perfectly and absolutely good being. He supposedly made us and it is our duty to him as our maker to obey him. Disobedience to God is called sin. God will judge sin if he is fair.
 
God expects us to obey his moral code. A moral code is based on the idea that must do good or suffer punishment. A moral rule is not a rule at all unless it compels through the threat of punishment for disobedience.
 
The good person is like a moral person but the two are not the same. The good person may be totally anti-punishment. The moral person has to believe in punishment.
 
Nobody likes moralisers. Yet they have been fooled by Christianity to worship one! Strange world!
 
Christians say that if you do not love your neighbour who you see then you do not love the God you cannot see. If you say you do then you are a liar. But this presupposes that you have to obey God to love him. But what about wives who do not obey their husbands and who undoubtedly love them? The love of God is about control thus it is a nasty and abusive love. Like the love a brute uses to manipulate his wife. If God's love is to be praised then hate is not wrong. The Christian faith slanders the person who sees through the notion that love of God and neighbour have to go together. The person is called a liar for exposing the truth.
 
Christ said that you must love your neighbour as yourself. This does not actually say we must love ourselves. It only assumes we do love ourselves. It does not indicate approval for loving yourself. Loving yourself is so natural that it cannot be commanded. It is as absurd and impossible as commanding your dog to breathe. Even those who have bad feelings towards themselves love themselves - they just have warped self-love. The commandment implies that the neighbour actually comes first. How? Though we cannot be commanded to love ourselves, part of us would like to be. Also, if my self-love is warped, I am not allowed to inflict warped love on others. In that case, the commandment means, "If your warped love for yourself makes you want to starve yourself, give the food to your neighbour because you want them to benefit from real healthy love."
 
Such a teaching is repulsive to us. We will end up with no need for encouragement to hate if we really take it seriously.
 
Suppose God and the Church find it regretful that somebody is in Hell. What they regret is that the person abused his will. What they don't regret is that owing to the choice he made the person is there. They hold the person deserves it. It is foolish to warm to God and the Church when they lament the soul being in Hell for that is not the whole story. They have found a way to celebrate it too. If I regret the fact that the murderer of my child abused his will for his sake and the child's, that is not only compatible with gloating over his fate which is rotting in jail. IT IS THE REASON I CAN GLOAT! 
 
Christians like to say they love the sinner and hate and judge only the sin. They say they do not condemn or judge the sinner or the person but that they leave that to God. They say that we must love sinners not by judging them but by judging their sins. So they say that to judge a person as bad is to hate that person. Their God is a God of hate. If they were honest they would not pretend that judging an act as wrong or bad or without excuse is not to judge the sinner.
 
They are pretending that they and their God love even the worst of sinners unconditionally. Unconditional love means that the good person and the bad person are loved the same. Whatever we do will not reduce the love God has for us. It seems that no official Catholic Church document ever taught that God loves like that (page 8, Catholic Voice, 9 May 2010). The Bible says that God loves his servants who are faithful (1 Kings 8:23). Why didn't the author write that God loves everybody? If he loves unconditionally then it does not matter to his love if we are faithful or not. The Bible is trying to encourage people to be faithful by saying that God loves the faithful. That implies he does not love the unfaithful. In John 14:21-23, Jesus says that God loves those who obey Jesus. These qualifiers imply that the doctrine of unconditional love is false. Proverbs 6 says that God hates the heart that schemes. This is another way of saying the person is hated. Zechariah 8:17 says that God hates whoever plots evil against his neighbour and who takes false oaths. Malachi 1:3 and Romans 9:13 teach that God hates Esau. Jeremiah 16:5 has God saying he has taken his love and his compassion away from his people. Hosea 9:15 says that God hates the wicked of Gilgal. He says he will no longer love them. Paul says that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Romans 8. He lists the things that cannot separate us from God such as creatures or calmatives. Sin is not in the list so it is simply untrue that God will keep loving us if we sin. John 15 has Jesus saying that he will only love those who keep his commandments. He uses the word if, the commandments are a condition. The Bible never teaches unconditional love. The Church says that you cannot get to God unless you repent your sins. That is a condition for having a relationship with God. The unconditional love idea clearly implies that God has a relationship with you and if you do not respond that relationship still exists. It;s a one way relationship.
 
The Christians say that if you live only for pleasure, you distort and suppress your other instincts such as the desire to be virtuous, useful to others, educated and so on. Thus you make yourself unhappy in the long run for you make yourself unfulfilled over fulfilling one instinct. Clearly if this is true, then God has set up human psychology for this to happen. I'd far rather have a God that vindictively punished directly than one that played games like that. Why is God so ashamed of punishing and why does he have to make it look so self-inflicted? It has more to do with him than what the person has done to themselves.
 
It’s only natural that the more you love God the more you will hate anything that he condemns. If you love your girlfriend a lot you will despise anybody doing anything bad to her. The more you love the perfect God the more the idea of finding happiness in a person seems distasteful. You will end up doing good for others not because you have any warmth for them but because God wants it. Obviously, you have to hate others to love God and you have to hate yourself. Admittedly, the hatred is pushed down into the subconscious but it is still there. God commands that he must be cherished above all things which demands an extreme hatred of people on the subconscious level and hatred of anything that leads them away from the will of God.
 
An unbeliever would hate an evil action intensely. But a believer in God is expected to hate it far more. That risks going overboard.  Hating something too much is not helpful.  Belief in God adds insult to injury for a crime against God is very serious for he is such a good being.
 
You can believe that you love evildoers but hate their evil but if you believe that evil is sin which means it offends God you will naturally have to hate the evil more and more so God increases the hatred towards sinners. Belief in God is evil and anything that promotes belief in God is evil too.
 
What comes first, loving the sinner or hating the sin? Since God, being the best being of all, comes first and commands that he be the reason we do all we do it has to be hating the sin. But this will stupefy and strangle the love you have for the sinner. The hatred for sin which corresponds to love for God has to swamp any affection for the sinner and destroy it. It is just like how love can be blind and condone evil and make you a bad judge of character. The same principle is at work here. You have to loathe sin for God hates it infinitely so the hatred for it has to be very intense. It follows that if you cannot love the sinner and hate the sin then religion is incitement to hatred. Love is made into a polite and hidden way of hating somebody’s guts. It is particularly vicious and crafty to do that for it avoids detection. The hatred often came out when the believers had the freedom to do to their enemies what they had always wanted. Miracles are supposed to be signs from God that show the doctrines of a religion are favoured. This tells us that if they happen then Satan is responsible.
 
You could believe in a God who rewards but who never punishes. To believe in a God that does punish is to believe in God out of spite. The desire is to see people suffer for their wrongdoing because if God does not punish you can believe whatever you want. People do find more comfort in magical items like rose quartz crystals than God.