{"id":1125,"date":"2007-05-23T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2007\/05\/hate-is-four-letter-word.html"},"modified":"2007-05-23T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T10:25:00","slug":"hate-is-four-letter-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2007\/05\/hate-is-four-letter-word.html","title":{"rendered":"Hate is a Four-Letter Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=\"arial\">by <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/seedsforsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_new\"><font face=\"arial\">Dr. Susan Corso<\/font><\/a><br \/><font face=\"arial\"><br \/>Years ago, I knew a woman who, whenever she was confronted with any distasteful aspect of the human condition, would say, \u201cDoncha just hate that?\u201d It always made us laugh at the time.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of something St. Paul writes in Romans 7: 15 in the Christian Scriptures. <em>For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that do I. <\/em>This is from the King James Version. It\u2019s written in Shakespearean English which can seem convoluted. Let me translate: <\/font><br \/><font face=\"arial\"><\/font><br \/><font face=\"arial\">I don\u2019t always like my own actions. What I should do, I don\u2019t do. I do what I disapprove of! Jeez.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I\u2019m enjoying e-books, being a big believer in save-the-trees. Someone sent me a book by Anantharaman Vishwanath entitled, \u201cI Love to Hate, But I Hate When I Do Not Love.\u201d I don\u2019t love to hate, and I don\u2019t think anyone, really, loves to hate, but there is hate in me. I know it because I see hate in the world, and I wouldn\u2019t be able to see it if it weren\u2019t somewhere in me.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, I knew a man who, whenever I would say, \u201cI hate that,\u201d would respond with, \u201cOuch.\u201d One particularly conscious day, I asked him why. He said, \u201cYou\u2019re adding to the hate in the world. Hate hurts.\u201d I don\u2019t want to add to the hate in the world! 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