(September 3, 2022 at 5:38 pm)Woah0 Wrote: What if people who have hate for others who dont do them anything wrong "Though debatable sometimes, i would be offended by cannibalism".
But you get my drift.
Point is what if irrational hatred for others who dont interfere in your personal life, what if that is a sin?
Christians have a number of different ways of defining what sin is. It's a religion with a lot of diversity.
If we take the definition used by Aquinas and Dante, mostly adapted from Aristotle, it's easy to see why irrationally hating someone would be a sin.
For these Christians, our goal is to aim toward the Good, which is God. Aiming toward the Good is always what's in our own best interest.
To hate someone irrationally would cause your rational thought to be deformed and would hurt yourself. For example, you might obsess unnecessarily over that person and make yourself miserable. You might devote energy to hating that person which you ought to be using in some other way. You might even attack that person, although he has never harmed you, and get yourself in trouble.
If we encounter someone bad, we should dislike that person for the things, and to the degree, that it is rational. Going beyond that and becoming irrational is a sin because it deranges our proper rational thinking.
