What a horrible word. Contempt. Even the sound of the word brings to mind something of its “feel”. Have you ever heard someone say, “I have only utter contempt for him”? What does it conjure up? An attitude of scorn, of a haughty superciliousness, a withering, sneering, disrespectful, depreciating sort of mental condition that smacks of superiority in the mind of the one who speaks. None of us like to see this in action. It offends us. We roundly judge the perpetrator of such ill usage and unloving manner. [Read more…]