Hate? Do we have to hate because we are humans?

[astarmathsandphysics]

I am an atheist/ I am trying to do as much good as I can though, just in case.

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I am an atheist/ I am trying to do as much good as I can though, just in case.

Still going to hell,buddy. Monotheistic religions are pretty unforgiving on atheism.

So which hell do you prefer?
Jewish one ? Islamic, or Christian  .
 

[astarmathsandphysics]

If I have to go to bell I hope they have the internet there.
Whichever bell I go to, I will rally support for an atheist hell where we all live in denial.

[minicooper]

I will rally support for an atheist hell where we all live in denial

Haha very funny...  : D 

 Don't know if there even is a Jewish hell. Maybe it's not a 'place' in Judaism. Maybe just the opposite of 'the world to come'. Maybe you just stay dead if you don't make it.

[astarmathsandphysics]

Dead would be the worst. Maybe religious people should say you will be dead forever and not that you will go to hell.

[minicooper]

Some religious people do say that.

They don't just say what sounds the worst, some say what they genuinely believe.

[astarmathsandphysics]

Maybe then, hell is to believe in nothing.

[Amelia]

I am an atheist/ I am trying to do as much good as I can though, just in case.

And you will be repaid in kind. A life of peace and good friends. The 'life after death' is a completely different matter.

Coming back to the topic, Hate is a natural feeling in us. Intense dislike to something cannot be suppressed. If there was no hatred, we wouldn't know the meaning of love.

[Romeesa-Chan]

Hate is a natural feeling in us. Intense dislike to something cannot be suppressed. If there was no hatred, we wouldn't know the meaning of love.

Well said. 

[silvercameron]

when you have suffered and been held in misery terrible at the hands of other people,hate is something that develops in the persons heart.when you experience something like that only then will you learn how hate cannot be ignored and its not an emotion that can be suppressed easily.i have been through this,and maybe unintentionally or delibrately,i cant let go of hate ,because maybe thats what helps me face the person and bear the pain,and once it is gone,i wil be forced to deal with pain.
If you dont know hate,you dont know to what depth you can love,what love is.when you've been through hate,you love your loved ones even more.
Hate is a completely natural feeling,and it can stay even when you have forgiven the person,because then you dont want anything to do or to say to them.

Hate may subside and eventually die because time takes away pain,but not for all.and the least you could say when you hate is,if you dont hate them you dont love them either.

[Asante]

 Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? 

[astarmathsandphysics]

Even the most generous God could not prevent all the evil people do to each other.
What we need is collective self knowledge, so that we know the evil we are capable of, and are better able to avoid it.
As for God, any God would allow us this, if He were just.

[Saladin]

There is always a yin to a yang. There is love, and there is hate.

[Romeesa-Chan]

^Replace the hate with love!

[astarmathsandphysics]

That's an idea. Spend all day in bookshops and library crossing out all occurrences of the word hate and replacing them with love, all occurrences of the word war and replacing them with peace etc.