Luke 14:25-33 Hate on them, hater?

This is a difficult text to take. Jesus, the one who is defined by love, who is defined as love, calls on us to hate? and he does not say to hate those other people "over there" as we often hear our own people cry. Rather, he says to hate those who are closest to us. Jesus calls us to radical breaks with all that we know and hold sacred so that something new might come of our lives and into our world. I personally wish Jesus used a more refined vocabulary. But he is moving into rough territory that will not be for the faint of heart. All individual attachments must go, so that the whole world can be served. Sometimes our limited love needs to be blasted open at the places of its firmest attachments!