Can the Psalms make us Hate?

I love Jesus. Most of the time I like Jesus. I am learning to love the church again. I am allowing myself to ask questions I never asked before. I don't ask because I want to degrade Jesus, but because I think He is strong enough for my questions. These are thoughts as I continue my faith journey from deconstruction to reconstruction and beyond…Spoiler Alert: There are no answers in this blog, only questions.

For thousands of years Christians have found solace in the Psalms. These songs/poems have helped Christians to endure suffering and look to Almighty God for help. So I don't negate their historical benefits or beauty.

But I am confused about something because I have been reading a portion of a Psalm nearly every day for a year or more, and at the same time I have noticed that my Christian community has two curious faults:

• We often think that everything is black or white.
• We often look at those whose ideas contradict our community's as evil and deserving of our hate.

When I read the New Testament and the words of Jesus I find him loving lost, confused people and reinterpreting ancient ideas so that prostitutes can live and sin no more. I find him loving his enemies.

But when I read the Psalms, I do begin to hear that everything is good or evil. I hear about hating enemies and the wicked. The Psalms sound more like the thinking in the American Church than the words of Jesus do.

And that is where I am stuck. If all scripture is God Breathed so we can't just cut out the mean Psalms from the Bible. But what can we understand recognizing the time the Psalms were written? What can we understand recognizing these are songs/poems and not expositional? Is there just a lot of hyperbole? I don't really know. At this point I just have a problem, and I am looking for a solution.

Has anyone else ever had these observations? Who has ever taught on this issue? Could we as a church be more hateful toward those outside Christianity for the reading of the Psalms incorrectly? How do we resolve the apparent contradictions between Jesus love for enemies and the Psalms hatred for enemies?

Addendum:

Since writing this I have been reading authors such as Peter Enns, Scot McKnight, John Walton, and Rachel Held Evans. Their perspective on the Bible answers this question significantly if not completely. The Psalms are ancient literature written thousands of years ago. The authors were on their journey of faith trying to find God within their context. They considered Yahweh a warrior God and a tribal God. Their concept of God and life was nothing like ours. Going to war and fighting and pillaging was as normal as getting a coffee from Dunkin is for us. Over time God has revealed himself more (primarily through Jesus). Thus we know better in our modern understanding of God to ignore those aspects of the Psalms that are in conflict with the teachings of Jesus. Therefore, we should not be allowing the psalms to influence us toward binary thinking or hating our enemies.