Consume the infallible word of the sand religion god.
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You can't parse that verse using your interpretation and combine it with the 10 commandments ("honor thy mother and father"). It doesn't make sense through your lens, because your interpretation is wrong.
We are supposed to honor our mother and father, and love our families more than our neighbors, and our neighbors more than our people, and our people more than foreigners, and so on, because truth is hierarchical, and God is hierarchical. Some things are more important than others.
However, to be a Christian, to follow God fully, and to be a good person, is to prioritize truth above all else. This is what Jesus means when he says to hate our own family. "Hate" here doesn't mean to literally hate them, but to prioritize God and truth over them. When our loved ones err, we disagree with them and tell them the truth, because we prioritize truth first. When our loved ones sin, we rebuke them and their sins, because we love God first, and in so doing, love our family too, because we don't allow them to wallow in their sins. This matches perfectly with Matthew 10:37 when Jesus says "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."
The word "hate" in Luke 14:26 is derived from the Greek word "μισεῖ", which can mean "hate, detest, abhor, or love less." In contextual use, it means to renounce or prioritize one thing over another.