Anatomy of Hatred
In the Name of the Father
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It was a jungle out there. Survival defined all Life. To survive was Primary and Paramount. At any cost. At all costs.
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Fear was essential for Survival. Hatred is the product of Fear. You Fear something which has the power/ability to destroy you – your life, your amenities. You hate something because you Fear it has the power to destroy your life and interests (sometime/ anytime) even if the threat itself is not imminent.
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Neutralization of the threat (Of the Natural) required understanding of the source. Removal of the threat (Of the Living) required termination of the cause – very often, Killing.
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Only two independent emotions are powerful enough to instigate Murder – Hunger and Hatred: For Food, and out of Fear. Killing for food, an act out of physiological necessity. Killing out of Hatred, a psychological perversion.
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With the discovery of Fire and the invention of primitive Tools (& weapons) Man’s fear of Nature’s fury and Beasts rapidly disappeared. Now serious 'threat' seemingly existed only from one quarter- His own species.
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So Man embarked on a killing spree - a pre-emptive mission of termination, murdering his own kind by the thousands and millions, initially for reasons of Food, livestock, work-slaves, then for increasingly decadent reasons of Land, Gold, Women and then for abstract and illusionary reasons of Domination, Power and Ambition.
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Man’s sustenance of hatred toward his own kind required strong ‘Emotion’. Here Emotion becomes but a tool in hands of the Mind to delude his power of Reason.. Anything different from himself immediately becomes suspect. Any difference between Men was exploited into becoming a reason. Very often, the full effort of his intelligence was employed to track down these differences. Various reasons from skin color to geographic location to dissimilar practices provided motivation and raison d’etre.
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The greatest Fear was spawned by the greatest Threat– Death. Death : All powerful and Unconquerable. Invisible. The mind retaliates by inventing a creator for this Threat - God. (The invention of God did not follow Man’s wonderment of Nature, Life and Cosmos, but his low nagging, nauseous fear of Ageing and Death.) But here strangely Fear does not breed Hatred for the supposed author of Death (God). It does a 360. Fear breeds Love. An unreal Love. A delusional Pretence. Anything to get into His good books - Rituals, Offerings, Sacrifices. False Love, most readily. (Take the sting out of God – make him less Wrathful and Humans will Hate a fright causing God, Hate being Man’s inherent and genetic response to Fear-Instigators.)
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Unable to direct his Hatred towards an invisible author of his own creation who he supposes perpetrated his greatest cause of Fear, and forced to delude himself into ‘Love’ing Him, Man finds a new reason to resurrect and focus his natural propensity for Hatred: Religion. Religion now becomes the new difference between Men which creates the new threat and becomes the handy new murderous reason.
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More people have been killed in the name of God than any other.
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Anatomy of Hatred -2
Warriors Of God