7th SUN ORD – “Love your enemies???”

  What do I get out of hating my enemies?  Of obsessing about them and getting exercised about them?  I believe I get – 

• A focus for obstreperous energies & feelings
• Relief from personal fears and corporate anxiety
• Distraction from my smallness and impotency to change big things
• Blame some one(s) else for what’s actually bothering me

What do you get out of hating your enemies?

What do I do when an enemy absorbs my attention?

• I inflate my smallness so I feel powerful instead of impotent & strong instead of weak
• I avoid the fundamental vulnerability that is my birthright as a creature of God
• I scapegoat another or others and feel invincible in my ideologically compatible group
• I make another/others pay for personal and corporate hatred of creaturely frailty.
• I reject repentance and conversion by seeing only their need to repent and convert

What do you get out of concentrating on your enemies?