An amazing number of people spend their lives, or portions of them, hating their neighbors. They begin by making fun of their neighbors. That quickly passes to mocking and belittling them. Some of us think that’s a bad way to spend time. We wonder, more often than we realize, “Why do they always tear people down? Why do they insult people all the time? Why don’t they help people instead of hurting them?”
We see that literature, tv, movies, plays, talk shows, commentaries, and all that passes for intellectualism among moderns, is largely a condemnation of traditional, Christian morality. The idea that we should obey a command like “Love your neighbor as yourself.” is, to increasingly seen as ridiculous, if not insane. The importance of loving our neighbors is not a thought that any in the Community of Hate embrace, except when one of them needs help or assistance.
Looking at hate through the ages, we see that it emerged in the Garden, where it separated God’s beloved human programs from Him. We see it ruling through the ages as successive haters, each generation more technically adept at killing than that which preceded it, destroy ever more people. Haters tend to gather together; their favorite hate identified by various sub-groups of haters with whom they spend, or want to spend, the most time.
Some, reading The Book of Revelation, try to see where the three hateful beings fit into things. It’s reasonable to consider that the personified hatred that emerged in The Garden was The Dragon. The Beast(s) that followed it may symbolize the ever-deadlier governments of the Iron Age. A few mention the possibility that the False Prophet arose among the sons of Ishmael, and that the countless deaths inflicted in his name prove it. Others believe that the False Prophet was embodied in those who follow the visions of those who try to build their own heaven on earth. If so, the rule of the False Prophet, from The French Revolution nine generations ago to Venezuela today, is part of that final onslaught of hate.
