Oh, I think some have quite enough animosity for all of us to share — and there would be at least 12 baskets of fragments left over.
Here’s how to nurture and strengthen animosity. Let most of your (not you personally, generic ‘you’) learning about the other side be dominated by books and people who hate the other side. That way you can be almost certain that you will not understand the other side, and the fears and concerns which we all have about the unfamiliar will be readily converted into contempt.
It also helps if you have a theology which stokes the illusion that it is okay to hate people because, after all, God hates people, so that once you ‘know’ whom God hates, you can be as venomous as you please while telling yourself you are righteous.
And, as I saw among some co-religionists yesterday, it is also good to be so ready to rebut the other side that you never hear what they are saying.
Hatred and contempt are addictive. Like most addictive things, they help us avoid confronting those aspects of our lives and selves which need confronting if we want to grow in love.
GOOD POINTS.