Does hatred protect us and make us strong?
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Short answer
Yes, God is love. Yes, God and Jesus hate evil. Yes, overcoming evil is why Jesus came. But in our actions, like Jesus, Christians should NOT be driven by hate but empowered with love. For strength, you may have been thinking of anger, an irascible passion that can be in the service of both good and evil action (see the analysis below).
Detailed answer
In Catholicism, using the Thomistic analysis of the human action, while hatred (being one of the 6 concupiscible appetite) can be a cause of an action aroused by evil it's not hatred that makes you stronger, but a combination of:
- Hope: to be daring and to avoid despair, useful while making a decision to take action; one of the 3 theological virtues
- Courage: to overcome fear while executing the action; one of the 4 cardinal virtues
- Anger: to add resolve in overcoming present evil while executing the action; one of the 5 irascible passions
which plug into appropriate stages in the Process of Human Action:
Resources
Concise descriptions of each of the 11 passions by Notre Dame Thomist expert and professor: Alfred J. Freddoso
Aquinas 101 topical videos
Aquinas 101 Course 4: Principles of the Moral Life:
- Episode 49: Human Action
- Episode 51: The Passions in General placing hate and love in the context of other passions as well as for another person
- Episode 52: The Specific Passions explaining hope (as passion), anger, etc.
- Episode 54: Virtue explaining the 4 cardinal virtues, including courage
Peter King's book chapter Aquinas on the Passions in Aquinas's Moral Theory (Cornell, 1999)
Peter King's book chapter Emotions in Oxford Handbook of Aquinas (2012)
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