Bible verse "1 John 4:20"
Joseph Campbell once expressed his disgust with Levant religion hate preaching, hate interpretation, hate attitudes. The condescending nature of Yaweh, Jesus, Allah when used as an Authority Figure that the Clergy stands in front of as tool of power and 'hate thy neighbor' teachings.
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Now this isn't expressing some specific event - as if Jesus fed people on a certain day in a specific city in the Levant. It expresses an observation of what people were doing with religion. Its about how people interprt, relate, and utilize teachings. "1 John 4:20"
Rick Roderick in 1993 about hate
The "Tower of Babel" metaphor gets at the heart of this problem too, in my view. Paired with the same time period with verse John 1:1
And of course, the tower of babel, Tim Finnegans Ladder climb, is part of core experience in Finnegans Wake. Humanity loves to use white light and dark to represent good and evil, and upward - heavens as a metaphor of good - and down under ground - "Hell" as metaphor of evil.
As Rick Roderick said in "Self Under Siege", I don't want to sound cynical, this to me is at the heart of love and compassion. I think we can witness people abuse (or maleducated) the word "love" to mean "I agree", and when they no longer agree they grey rock and silhouette "the other" that they reduce.
again, this isn't about promoting cynicism, it's about being self-aware of our group behaviors.
Falling deeply in love with a book character
Falling in love with Adolph Hitler
Falling in love with Donald Trump / "The Apprentice" reality TV star
"I love Jesus", but you can't hate anybody. Love your enemy, who is left to hate? nobody. "1 John 4:20' confronts this directly.