That's the definition of religion - it separates "us" from "them".
Even if one believes in a god and if one wants to celebrate and worship that god, most people want to gather with others who feel the same.
Presto. Instant religion and instant hate.
Instant hate... what is the definition of hate?
8130. sane
enemy, foe, be hateful odious, utterly
A primitive root; to hate (personally) -- enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.
Proverbs 8:13
"The fear of the LORD
is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate."
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3404. miseó
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
hate
From a primary misos (hatred); to detest (especially to persecute); by extension, to love less -- hate(-ful).
John 7:7
"The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil."
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enemy, foe, be hateful odious, utterly
A primitive root; to hate (personally) -- enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.
to detest (especially to persecute); by extension, to love less -- hate(-ful).
This is the Biblical Definition...
Sounds pretty harsh, right?
Yes. But are believers 'commanded' to 'hate'? To despise another person? To loathe, to cast away, to spit upon?
And besides the definition of 'hate', even in Biblical terms, is 'hatred' based on SANE or is it based on INSANE?
8130. sane â–º
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
enemy, foe, be hateful odious, utterly
Should things that are 'insane' be hated more or less than those things which are 'sane' .. Or should both insanity and sanity be accepted in just the same love and acceptance as to any other thing or human or idea or living thing on Earth?
Ponder this if you desire.
You enter a friend's home. You are single and free. You enjoy your life. You enter into your friend's home and there he or she has a child. A 1 year old child. The child can crawl and is crawling around. And you see many things on the floor on which the child is crawling on. Pins, tacks, needles, sharp blades, razor blades, trash, filth, garbage, unwashed dishes, not thrown away used diapers.
You see the child crawling around in this. The child doesn't seem to mind though.
What would your response or emotion or thought be?
Now imagine the same scenario.. Only this time add some used hypodermic needles used for injecting drugs. Now what would your response or emotion or thought be?
Which would be 'sane' and which would be 'insane'?
Here is an example a little different.
To some parents, to teach their kids according to these ways is acceptable, otherwise they would NOT have done it.
To some others, this method to teach a child is not acceptable.
However, what is the crying mother feeling? Is it acceptable to her or not?
To the dad, it was acceptable... To the mom, it was not so acceptable. Besides, who's that lady friend when his wife was not home?
"That's the definition of religion - it separates "us" from "them".
Even if one believes in a god and if one wants to celebrate and worship that god, most people want to gather with others who feel the same.
Presto. Instant religion and instant hate."