Lenin: “The essence of Communism is hate.” When a particularly vicious serial killer asked her torturers “Why are you doing this?”, he responded, “Because we hate you.” Lenin, of course, was responsible for far more deaths, but the common theme is the same. When we look at the heroes of the lost, from Che to Stalin, we find that hatred courses through their veins.
Hate comes from sin, most often an extreme vanity that cannot stand not to be better than others. Those who hate believe that their betters must be eliminated, preferably after having been demeaned.
These emotions are difficult for most of us to understand. We persist, for instance, in believing that environmentalists want to “make the earth better” because it’s easier to deal with that than to think “They hate us and want to destroy our jobs.”
Just as we tend to avoid hateful people in our lives, we tend to avoid dealing directly with the extreme unpleasantness that emanates from them. It is cowardly of us not to recognize that they are filled with hate. It doesn’t do them any good to be told that they’re “concerned about universal well-being” when what they really want is to kill prosperity and people.
Our lies include imputing motives to them that they only pretend to have as a veneer for their love of death. Their lies only serve to get them into positions where they can do more damage. Our lies about their motives only facilitate that process.
