Fighting Is One Thing, Hatred Quite Another

We live in duality. For every yea there's a nay and for every utopia a dystopia- and the person you think dystopian thinks they're utopian and you're dystopian. It's a free world- and you can hate those whose opinions you deplore if that's what you really want to do but hate just leads to more hate- and hate corrodes the hater. What Jesus said is the only sane way forward: "Love your enemies".

"How can you be a Christian and also kill people?" I once asked a retired General who'd come to sermonize at our school. I forget his exact words but the gist of them was, "You can love a person even as you're fighting them." I've been thinking about this ever since...