Religious Hatred

Nonne odientes te, Domine, odivi, et super inimicos tuos tabescebam? Perfecto odio oderam illos; inimici facti sunt mihi. Est religiosum odium, quotiens in nobis odio est qui Deum odit. Inimicos quidem nostros amare praecipimur, sed nostros, non et Dei. Nam, juxta Deum, et patrem et matrem et conjugem et filios et fratres odisse devotum est. Odit ergo odientes Deum, et inimicorum odio tabescit, et odit odio perfecto, et inimici sibi facti sunt. Sanctus Hilarius Pictaviensis,Tractatus super Psalmos, Tractatus in Psalmum CXXXVIII Source: Migne PL 9.815

The haters of you, Lord, did I not hate, and did I not wither because of your enemies? With a perfect hatred I hated them, and they have become my enemies. 1 It is a religious hatred as many times as there is in us hatred for him who hates God. Certainly we are commanded to love our enemies, 2 ours, but not God's. For on account of God hatred of father and mother and wife and children and brothers is devotion. 3 He hates, therefore, the haters of God, and because of His enemies he withers, and with a perfect hatred he hates, and they have become his own enemies. Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Homilies on the Psalms, from Psalm 138 1 Ps 138. 21-22 2 Mt 5.44 3 Lk 14.26