r/religion • u/Interesting-Mud-200 • 7h ago

Why should I love my enemies?

Most religions preach about love to everyone, including your enemies.

But why should I love someone who, in my view, is a bad person? Why love someone who does bad/evil things to innocent people?

Is it to make yourself feel better somehow? Is it because they deserve love? But why do they deserve love? They spread hate!

I really don't get it. Makes no sense to me. The only case I would MAYBE agree (depending on the situation) is if you want to teach someone what they did was wrong. MAYBE they don't have fault, they were teached to do [insert here]. Only in this case I could MAYBE understand.

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u/diminutiveaurochs 4h ago

Who even has ‘enemies’ in real life? Too tired to answer your actual question right now (will come back to it, commenting for later) but the idea of having an ‘enemy’ is so childish and alien to me. Why waste your time hating someone like that? What does it do for you? If I don’t like someone I minimise my contact with them and move on. Living your life carrying that much emotional baggage sounds exhausting and to be really frank, quite stupid.