Love Vs. Hate(?)

[Annie12]

So, I was just thinking about how there is Good and bad. Good boils down to love but what does bad boil down to? Because the greatest comandment from God is to love. Thus Love is Good. But Is the counter to Love, hate? When Jesus became flesh and died for us, the soldiers put to death love incarnite. Right? So, I'm guessing when the antichrist comes (whenever in the futer that will be) he will be hate? Am I on the right thought pattern?

(P.S. my new compyter doesn't have spell check so sorry for any mistakes)

[NonNovi]

Isn't hate just the absence of love? It doesn't exist on its own, if love never existed there would also be no hate.
Jesus died (His human body), but God didn't. And Jesus has been resurrected of course. So "love" never died or dissapeared.
And the antichrist, he will be everything we didn't expect probably, be prepared

[Egidio]

LOVE = To want the best for the beloved.( The greatest good to be desired for another human is his salvation)
HATE = To want what is bad for the 'be-hated' (not a real word)

The less selfish one is, the more perfect can one love!

The death of Christ was a consequence of His perfect Love for us. He held nothing back, He was not satisfied until the very last drop of His Blood was shed for us!

The anti-christ would be hate in as much as he only wants glory for himself, and so it makes it impossible for him to love (Just like the devil).

This is obviously a very summarised response!!!

AVE MARIA!!

[Egidio]

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Isn't hate just the absence of love? I
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In a sense, yes. But it has effects which manifest themselves, and that manifestation we can call hate...(Is that confusing?!?!?)

[Annie12]

[quote name='Egidio' timestamp='1346253489' post='2475803']
LOVE = To want the best for the beloved.( The greatest good to be desired for another human is his salvation)
HATE = To want what is bad for the 'be-hated' (not a real word)

The less selfish one is, the more perfect can one love!

The death of Christ was a consequence of His perfect Love for us. He held nothing back, He was not satisfied until the very last drop of His Blood was shed for us!

The anti-christ would be hate in as much as he only wants glory for himself, and so it makes it impossible for him to love (Just like the devil).

This is obviously a very summarised response!!!

AVE MARIA!!
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oh! okay! This makes more sense! Thanks!

[sixpence]

yeh I would break it down to be more like selfish/self-love =evil but selfLess love= good

[Papist]

I'd say in our everyday life, hate is the absence of selflessness.

[phatcatholic]

JPII says in "Love and Responsibility" that the opposite of love is lust, or "use."

His words:
-- "If I treat someone else as a means and a tool in relation to myself I cannot help regarding myself in the same light. We have here something like the opposite of the commandment to love" (p. 39).
-- "sensuality by itself is not love and may very easily become its opposite" (p. 108).

Dr. Edward Sri, in his series of articles summarizing "Love and Responsibility" says:

-- "Yet in reality, the giving or receiving of tenderness, apart from the objective aspect of love, creates only the appearance of love, and it often covers up the real underlying attitude driving a relationship: an egoism that is the very opposite of love." ([url="http://catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/se0134.htm"]link[/url])

In case you're wondering, by "egoism" Dr. Sri means a self-centeredness that measures everything by how it effects oneself and furthers one's own pursuit of gratification. I think this is an intriguing twist on the common love vs. hate paradigm.