Monday, 24 October 2022

 

 

 

 

                                                HATRED

HATRED

Some of the synonyms of hatred are : dislike, hostility, ill-will, enmity, grudge, antipathy and antagonism.

            None of these traits is desirable to be cherished by any human being.

            Hatred is poisonous.  It kills the joy of him who hates and of him who is hated.

            Saints do not permit hatred.  They recommend love even towards those who hate you, if you have any quality which they dislike for any religious or secular reason.

            Someone rightly said hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

According to French novelist Balzac (1799-1850) hatred is the vice of narrow  souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

            English divine F.W. Robertson (1816-53) permits the  hatred of vices like hypocrisy, intolerance, oppression and  injustice,

            What is really  disallowed by the right-minded thinkers are ugly traits which make human beings disagreeable characters.  They disallow the hatred of fellow human beings for any reason whatsoever.  Hate the sin, not the sinner is their motto, and that is O.K.

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24th October 2022                                                                         G.R.Kanwal

 

 

 

 

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