This really sounds unbelievable because in Luke 10:27 Jesus said love your neighbour and in 18:20 he will say love your father and mother. So why is Jesus confusing us with contradictory teachings? Or is He? Jesus is not asking us to hate our relations literally. This is a hyperbolic way of saying ‘love less’. ‘Miseo’ in Greek translates as love less not as hate. This was also the way of speaking of Middle Eastern cultures and people.