like anything you can see what you want, where you want... or at least what you expect. i guess if you want/expect to see hatred in the bible, you will find it. if you expect to find love, you too will find it. this goes for any "holy" book... or just about anything in life really.

i do not follow the christian faith, believe in the divinity of jesus, or believe the bible is "god's word"... but i personally see thousands of years of wisdom and truth stored within it (yes covered in the mud and muck of human tampering for control and power with ideas like hell and all). for me, i can overlook the bad to find the good... and for me it has done much good to follow the MAN called jesus' example... i would probably be in much the same place if i grew up learning and emulating buddah's example or mother teresea...