In George Orwell’s famously incisive dystopian novel (based on communism under Joseph Stalin), Nineteen Eighty-Four, there was a daily exercise called the “Two Minutes Hate”.
In the novel, the Two Minutes Hate was a daily public period during which members of the Outer and Inner Party of Oceania had to watch a short film depicting Emmanuel Goldstein, the principal enemy of the state, and his followers, “The Brotherhood”. And the members were to loudly voice their hatred for the enemy, and then their love for Big Brother.
Wikipedia says this about the Two Minutes Hate: “The political purpose of the Two Minutes Hate is to allow the citizens of Oceania to vent their existential anguish and personal hatred toward politically expedient enemies… re-directing the members' subconscious feelings away from the Party's government”.
Adolf Hitler famously used hatred similarly to direct people’s subconscious feelings. In his book Mein Kampf and his frenzied speeches, Hitler galvanized the bitter feelings of post-World War I Germans around the unfair and abusive terms of surrender they were forced to accept by the Allied powers, which he himself felt deeply. From the basis of this bitterness (a complex emotion of resentment, disappointment, disgust, anger, and hatred), he wrote his book.
It fomented hatred against other people-groups, most pointedly the large minority Jewish population, which was already the target of propaganda and resentment. He realized that shared hatred could be a very unifying and “empowering” thing. He stirred up the German people in emotional appeals for their “deserved” place in the world - a deserved nationalist ascendancy, partly because of believing the false philosophy of evolution theory, coupled with the tremendous accomplishments of 18th and 19th century Germany. Germany was the “Fatherland”, a personification of nature and geography, and an epitome of evolutionary accomplishment.
Note that the idea of “struggle” is crucial to an evolutionary worldview – “survival of the fittest”. It is found in the title of Hitler’s book (translated as My Struggle), and in the subtitle to Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of the Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. Hitler and the other Nazi leaders believed they were helping evolution along in its inevitable development of “the Favored Race(s)”.
Enter Amin al-Husseini (1897-1974), Palestinian Arab Nationalist and Grand Mufti of Jerusalem through the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 and the rise of Naziism in Europe. He met with Adolf Hitler in 1941 and volunteered his help against Jews, whom he also hated, and against the Allies in WWII. Al-Husseini spent the rest of his life in propaganda against Jews and a Jewish state in the Middle East. He famously mentored Yasser Arafat, the early Palestinian terrorist leader who was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes and coaches. The Jewish-hatred Nazi-style propaganda was picked up by Hamas, such that Palestinians have now had anti-Jewish hate-inducing propaganda for multiple generations. This anti-Jewish hatred led to the October 7, 2023, horrific massacre, kidnappings, and atrocities that began the most recent Gaza War.
Islam is inherently intolerant of other faiths because the word Islam means “submission”, submission to Allah and Sharia Law. Whatever leads to such submission by unbelievers, “infidels”, is acceptable in Islam – whether it be the conquering wars of Muhammad beginning in the 7th Century A.D., extermination of Jews and Christians, deception for the sake of subversion (the doctrine of “taqiyah”), suicide bombing to acquire 72 virgins in heaven, etc. This explains the current alliance of dissimilar ideologies, Islam and the Political Left, visible between Islamic and Marxist countries, and politicians and parties in Europe, America, and elsewhere. Most recently, of course, is the political victory of the radical Muslim-Marxist Zohran Mamdani to become mayor of New York City. Mamdani started his career as a "community organizer" of the sort made popular by the radical Marxist and original "community organizer", Saul Alinsky (1909-1972).
Saul Alinsky was, like the ruling party in George Orwell's novel 1984, Hitler, al-Husseini, Yassir Arafat and Hamas, also a person who understood and utilized the power of hatred. He honed and developed Marxist “oppressed”-vs-“oppressor” tactics for generating conflict to achieve so-called “social justice”. He wrote a book in 1971, Rules for Radicals, that became famous when “community organizer” Barack Hussein Obama succeeded in national politics in America. The book was declared by Obama to be "a great education", and has a famous acknowledgement by Alinsky "to the very first radical ...who...did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer". Lucifer of course is the archangel who rebelled and became Satan in the Bible (Isaiah 14:12-15, Ezekiel 28:14-17). In that acknowledgement Alinsky recognized that his book aligned with the strategies of Satan.
Alinsky used hate to bring a group together, uncovering something that would stir up conflict with some particular agency. The purpose of this tactic was to unite the group and provide an organization with a specific "villain" to confront and make direct action easier to implement. He wrote that activists should work the bitterness and focus the hate on “a target, then freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it” - Rule #13. The radical Left has for quite a few years now "targeted" as a "villain" for "personalized" hatred, Donald Trump. And to the degree they have been successful, they have energized their base with that personalized hatred.
Stirring up grievances and a contagious spirit of hatred with incessant indoctrination and sloganeering, the “oppressed” are pitted against “oppressors”. And a great socialist deception is employed that power and abundance will accrue to the oppressed people through a false humanistic and materialist worldview. Zohran Mamdani seems particularly skilled at being a Radical. People have noted this, and even in his acceptance speech remarked at how willing he is to attack and confront rather than co-operate in the best interest of New York City.
The Bible says we live in an evil world - a world that is unjust and hate-oriented, dominated by that old angel Lucifer (Satan) and the depravity of mankind. But Christians know that God “always leads us in triumph in Christ” (2 Corinthians 2:14), and “works all things together for good” (Romans 8:26) for us as we get on board with His purpose in the world and our need to love Him with heart, soul, mind, and strength. And Christians know that God will one day fully satisfy His eternal justice and His wonderful love as He patiently brings in all the people who will become His Church, His Bride at the end of this age.
Jesus said, “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise (shrewd) as serpents, and harmless (innocent) as doves.” While human government has a responsibility to bring justice against evil, the Bible teaches that we are individually to be kind and civil toward one another. Rather than allowing bitterness to be stirred up into hatred, the Bible says we should, “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you” (Ephesians 4:31-32).
- Mark Cadwallader, Board Chairman of Creation Moments
