Book contents
- Understanding the Christianity–Evolution Relationship
- Series page
- Understanding the Christianity–Evolution Relationship
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Rival Paradigms
- 2 The Mechanists’ God
- 3 The Organicists’ God
- 4 Humans
- 5 Environment
- 6 Hate
- Epilogue
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References and Further Reading
- Figure Credits
- Index
6 - Hate
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2023
- Understanding the Christianity–Evolution Relationship
- Series page
- Understanding the Christianity–Evolution Relationship
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Rival Paradigms
- 2 The Mechanists’ God
- 3 The Organicists’ God
- 4 Humans
- 5 Environment
- 6 Hate
- Epilogue
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References and Further Reading
- Figure Credits
- Index
Summary
we have a moral code that meshes with Christianity, why then are we so often non-social and why do we so blatantly disobey the dictates of Jesus Christ? “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you” (Matthew 5:43–4). Think about it. The Great War (later called the First World War), 1914–1918, between (depending how you count) 20 and 40 million dead. The Second World War, 1939–1945, 60 to 80 million dead. The Russian Civil War, 1917–1922, 5 to 10 million dead. The Chinese Civil War, 1927–1949, 10 million dead. And so it goes. We are not yet at the pogroms, from the Turks killing Armenians, Stalin and the Kulaks, Hitler and the Jews, down to Rwanda and the killing of the Tutsis, not to mention half a million women raped as a preliminary to grotesque mutilation of genitals.
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- Understanding the Christianity–Evolution Relationship , pp. 124 - 150Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023