If We Allow H-A-T-E into Our Lives, Are We Jesus' Followers?

If We Allow H-A-T-E into Our Lives, Are We Jesus' Followers?

It's common these days, especially on the media, to see people saying hateful things, treating others hatefully, and even protesting for the right to maintain their hate of others. How does Jesus feel about this?

In 1 John 4:7-11 it says: Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifest toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation [the atonement] for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.