![]() Such hatred flows from lust because lust pulls love down from its thrown and mires it in self-focused pleasure, instead of tempering it toward the common and individual good. ![]() Thomas Aquinas lists hatred of God as a “daughter” of lust. I hate, therefore, the man that enters my house to do violence to my family. As Jesus says, where our treasure is there too is our heart, and the treasures in our breasts direct our firsts we’ll strike our own heart with a fist when we violate it and we’ll strike another for the same reason. In other words, we hate the things that threaten what we love and cherish. Ambrose explains this verse in that very way, that submitting to the truth as revealed by nature means that we must submit ultimately to “the Author of nature, and depart not from God out of love for parents.” ![]() Obviously, this is a rhetorical device, because scripture itself confirms these natural loves. Jesus actually tells us plainly we must hate: “If any man comes to me, without hating his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yes, and his own life too, he can be no disciple of mine” (Luke 14:26). ![]() Hate is a by-product of love it grows because of love. Love is when you let the person be who they are, or something.īut love and hate are – to borrow another vogue word – binaries. ![]() Hate is when you don’t accept a person as they are, or something. One of the great errors of today’s sloganeering society is the demand we choose love or hate. ![]()
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