Personally I think Holy Roller is being a bit short sighted and narrow in his interpretation of scripture.
There's no alternate or different "interpretations" of scripture, CelticFlower. Where there's ambiguity there's interpretation, sure, but the scripture in Luke is not at all ambiguous (ambiguous means difficult to interpret). In fact, Yeshua lays down quite clearly who our enemy is. He does not tell us who our enemies aren't, although after Luke 6:30 we get an idea.
No. Jesus showed love to those who accepted him and those who did not. HR is also a bit narrow in what he terms "enemy". I always took it to mean any who oppose you or your beliefs as well as those who actively work against you. In a way, an atheist is an enemy because he rejects God, but we are to love you guys anyway. Why? Well, if I tell you about the Lord of Love, but use words and actions of hate toward you, are you going to believe me?
I disagree. I doubt it was love when Yeshua was driving the profiteers out of the Temple of G-d with the whip he made. And I doubt it was love when Yeshua said of the scheming Pharisee, "If your righteousness does not exceed that of the Pharisees, you will by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
If Yeshua is love, and if it was definitely
not love that drove the profiteers out of the temple, then what exactly was Yeshua showing? I believe it's clear that Yeshua was showing us that fundamental flaw of the human condition; that flaw that represents the scheming, diabolical mind of man, completely and utterly devoid of G-d's Spirit. He was showing to us that these profiteers at the temple gate and Pharisees had no Spirit in them, despite their superficialities to the contrary.
There are some Atheists here that are like that (and some that aren't), but almost all Atheists at the major Atheist message boards fit this bill to a tee.