[Bitsy]

I really agree with what Rose said, all of it I think. Love to me is also not just a feeling, it is a state of being that we can go in and out of. I also totally disagree with what John Prophet said! There is surely a path and a way to attain a state where you can feel love even for people you see doing what you think are the most heinous of acts, it's just that it's the hard path, or "the high road"...it's the road less traveled. Or the Bible says, wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and there are many that go in through that gate, but strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it. [Matt 7:13-14].
IMO people like John Prophet don't want to take the high road, they go through the wide gate; the result - they just become part of the rat race and become the problem.

You can't change the people you see doing harm, Dan. And maybe part of your anger comes from the fact that you feel helpless. One thing you can do, which I have done, is to reach out in some way to help the people you feel are suffering as a result of the evil you see. Instead of focusing on how evil this certain group of people is and the atrocities they are planning or carrying out, and just looking at them and feeling outrage, stop thinking about all of that and direct your energy to their "enemy". Befriend the victims of the evil and, if you can, find a way or a chance to help the victims and ease their suffering, even though you didn't cause it.

Don't dwell on the people's evil, but focus on healing the damage the evil is doing and focus your thought and energy on how you can ease the suffering, and maybe raise awareness about it, both within yourself and among others as well.

If we can't yet find love in our hearts for evil-doers, then we should shut them and the outrage out of our minds and hearts and find the love we have for the ones suffering from their deeds and act on that. Isn't it from the love for them that we are so angry at their aggressors?