Charity and Some Difficulties with Not Hating One's Enemies

Redneck Reflections has an excellent but tough post today on the necessity for positive good and for charity, a virtue I find difficult to cultivate.

Loving my enemies if they are weaker than me is easy - mere routine. As to those I perceive as stronger, there is nothing I would not (at least theoretically) inflict on them. As Virgil wrote, of the destiny and duty of Rome:

Parcere subiectos et debellare suberbos

("Spare the humble [or defeated] and war down the proud", and boy! would I not war the arrogant swine down!).

And this leads me to another matter - Honour, which a correspondent attacked as a merely pagan idea, but one to which I am greatly attached. A future post, perhaps.