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exactly why. A devil can only be painted from a distance. On
closer inspection, it may not be so dark (or red). It is well known
that the human features of the object of hatred must therefore be
eliminated. Creation (heaven, earth, light, darkness) was named
by God and all creatures by man.
And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts
of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to
see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living
creature the same is its name.
(Gen.2.19.)
Their names must therefore be taken from them. We have to turn
them into data, because a number is not a person. Numbers can
be hated; in fact, they can be erased. There are two kinds of hate:
2.1 territorial or
2.2 generic.
2.1 Territorial hate can be ended if the one I hate and do not
communicate with goes somewhere else. History has numerous
examples for this, such as the liquidation of nations and groups
for territorial reasons. Genocide against Armenians, Kurds,
etc. were of this nature. When they left the territory someone
else claimed, they could escape. The pogroms against Russian
Jews were like this. Those who emigrated from these zones to
find a new home were not chased down by Cossacks seeking to
exterminate them at all costs.
2.2 The most obvious example of generic hate was also directed at
Jews: The Holocaust. It began as a territorial hate (we need only
think of the unfeasible plan to remove all Jews to Madagascar).
It only later became generic. It did not matter where the Jews
were, they had to be hated. It made no difference whether they
left or not, they had to be hated. They had to be exterminated