The number one moral error is the assumption that creating enemies is of no relevance, as long as they can be coerced and intimidated into submission afterwards. All unrepentant corrupters destroy themselves with that error.

Creating enemies is a large part of what sin is. The abstract, philosophical discussion of sin portrays an objective nature to sin. Sin is that which destroys life. Conservatives, or fundamentalists, describe sin as disobedience to God. Either way, it's easy to lose the effect upon specific persons which creates enemies.

Morality and justice are synonyms applied to slightly different subjects. It means sin and injustice are synonyms. Justice is the universally defined alignment upon the requirements for sustaining life. Only truth defines it. For all practical purposes, the power of truth is the force of justice.

Implicit in the analysis of justice is that people are affected. As obvious as this may seem, it often gets lost in the worldly manifestations of religion. When rituals are assumed to take care of everything, the human element gets ignored. The concept of atonement promotes this problem. If sin were taken care of on the cross, then the effect upon humans is ignored, if not denied. One of the main things wrong with the concept of atonement is that it implicitly denies the human element of morality.

Fundamentalists don't realize it, but morality is created by laws which no one can defy. God does not defy them, he teaches them. What is meant by laws is that certain consequences will occur. Lying about it, or getting theology from a liar, won't change what morality or sin does to minds and souls.

One of the things sin does is create enemies. The universal nature of morality and sin means everyone loses from sin. Losing from sin creates enemies.

Corrupters often wonder why someone should care what happens to someone else. This is like questioning why a police force exists. Why would the police care what happens to someone they don't know? The answer is that sin is a threat to everyone. Another answer is that some persons care about other persons. There is a universal significance to sin for these reasons.

Corrupters also cannot understand why enemies matter. They assume they can control enemies. It is extremely mindless and short-sighted to assume enemies can be controlled.

Intimidation and coercion are the basic methods of attempting to control enemies. Other corrupt persons respond readily to intimidation and coercion attempting to realign themselves with sources of power. Since some persons respond, corrupters assume everyone should respond.

The most obvious error in the assumption that intimidation and coercion (force) will control enemies is that noncorrupt persons do not destroy themselves to please corrupt persons, which means they repel the forces of intimidation and coercion to every extent possible. Of course they can be broken superficially, which is one of the purposes of torture and related vices. But even the persons who most readily submit are only submitting superficially, because they pay a continuous price for being controlled and living with the threat which force imposes upon them. This means satan's supposed friends would knife him in the back the first chance they got.

Persons who create enemies are a threat to life, and other persons have to deal with them as a threat. Dealing with the threat at least means avoidance, and any number of other responses are possible. Sin defines, which means the threat doesn't go away when attention shifts to something else. A threat exists forever after, and therefore the opposing forces will exist forever after.

This principle is easy to state in abstract terms. Whenever an injustice is perpetrated, a counterforce of justice will build up against it until the source of injustice is eliminated. In more superficial terms, it means anyone who is a threat to others will forever have an opposing force acting against him until he is no longer a threat. And a threat to one is a threat to all. Even collaborators who join the corrupters know they are dealing with a threat and will eventually turn against the persons they conspire with. Collaborating in sin is only a temporary alliance held together by common interests but doomed to disintegrate in conflict eventually. It's like Pilate and Herod were enemies until they met Christ. A common enemy brought them together. But you can be sure they were at each other's throats again when Christ was gone.

These are the underlying reasons why Christ taught that an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth is not constructive. Compounding the sin does not eliminate enemies, it increases them.