There is no more emotion more powerful than self-loathing.

Except maybe self-loathing projected onto another individual or group of individuals whose appearance/behavior causes these people to be reimded of their own wretched self-loathing.

And there are certainly self-loathing, repressed homosexuals among Fundamentalist Christians who project their own religion-induced hatred of their hidden longings onto people who are open about their preferences.

A retired Anglican Bishop, John Shelby Spong, made a rather convincing case that St. Paul himself fit that category: