HATRED

June 12, 2012  Quote for Today

"I have honestly never gone in for hating.  My temporary bitternesses toward people have all been ended by what Freud called an inferiority complex and Christ called 'Let him without sin -'  I remember the day he said it. We were just like that then;  we tossed up for who was to go through with it - and he lost."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, letter to Ernest Hemingway, June 1, 1934, in Matthew J. Bruccoli, Scott and Ernest, 1978

Questions:

Have you ever put down a word (a rock) and not spoken it (thrown the rock) about another because of Jesus' words - as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it - in the above quote?

Have you ever seen hatred or gossip or attacking others as having inferiority feelings - as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it - in the above quote?

Is there anyone you hate? What does that do to you?

Read Matthew 5: 38-48.  What did Jesus figure out about hatred and retaliation and people who bother us and those we label as "enemies"?