Greetings,
Umm, I am trying to untangle that and make sense of it. If you hate me then surely it is obvious that you cannot respect me. If you hate my beliefs, then how can you respect my differences?
Hate is a feeling, respect is an action. One cannot always control their feelings, but they can control their actions. If I hated your beliefs, I respect your differences by not insulting you, hurting you, or ridiculing you in any way or form, rather if I disagreed with your beliefs, I can turn it into a postive thing and learn something from you.
Actually all that happened was that I was confused by your Sister's words. I asked her to clarify what she meant, and I have not understood her either. But I think it is hard, but not impossible, to hate someone's religion, but like them too. It is probably harder to hate someone's belief and still tolerate the believers of that Faith. But not impossible. I am sure it can be done. Do you think you manage it?
If you read it carefully, you would notice that it is really a clear statement.
I don't know about you (maybe its something you should work on), but as for me I have a very open-mind, so actually it is very easy for me to tolerate a belief that I hate, I encounter it everday, but I do not ever think once of hating that person. I've mentioned before that I have a friend who is an athiest, I hate the fact that some ppl just don't believe in Allah, but then again she's one of my bestest friends, and we have so much in common despite our religious differences, and over time that hatred disperses, you really waste your time lingering over something that you cannot change. As for being tolerable to believers of a certain faith that I may hate, well I don't judge a whole group of believers, everyone is different. I cannot say just because one christian is doing some thing wrong, it is my right to judge everyone else to be the same way.
regards,