Editorial October 19, 1946 Issue

Man Cannot Hate

Paul Stark Seeley

Strong language is used in the Scriptures to condemn hate, and to emphasize its unrelatedness to God or God's man.

To hate means to "have strong dislike of; bear malice to." Malice means "active ill will." "Hate," says Mary Baker Eddy, "is a moral idiocy let loose for one's own destruction" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 249). John did not mince matters when he said, "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer" (I John 3:15). Hate is a would-be destroyer.

Many persons entertain strong dislike of or active ill will toward others, feeling they are justified in doing so because they feel these other persons have done them some wrong, or manifested qualities not to their liking. Often, too, dislike and ill will appear in human thought when one person's viewpoint or course of action is criticized by another. Also rivalry for place, power, and recognition often breeds hate and ill will.

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