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%LOVING AS GOD 830327
The essence of Love is working sacrificially to help
create a community with the social and personal integrity
that frees its members to be and feel secure in open and
honest dialogue regarding all their differences. Love
works sacrificially to free people to be vulnerable in
intimate relationships with other persons who are
different in complementary and conflicting ways. The work
of love is passionate and thoughtful, and in it people
give meaning to their communal living by prioritizing the
values and people who come into conflict. People who are
in Love resolve their most severe conflicts without
alienation, because of Love working sacrificially to help
sustain a community with the social and personal integrity
that frees its members to be and feel secure in open and
honest dialogue regarding all their differences. God is
Love.
Evil is the absence of Love, just as darkness is the
absence of light. Evil is overcome by Love, just as light
dispels darkness. The absence of Love ceases to be in the
presence of Love, just as darkness ceases to be in the
presence of light. The power of evil is much like the
power of darkness, which can be dispelled by even a small
amount of light. Evil does not have the power to overcome
the power of love, any more than the greatest darkness has
the power to overcome the light of a tiny birthday candle.
The essence of evil is alienation which is the
absence of love, just as the essence of darkness is the
opposite of the presence of light; i.e., the absence of
light. Given the nature of evil it is futile to fight
evil with technologies which occasion alienation, just as
it is futile to fight darkness with beams of darkness
designed to cut through the darkness to split the darkness
asunder. Evil cannot be overcome through the use of
alienative: intellectual, mechanical, electrical, atomic,
nuclear, or legalistic technologies. All alienative
technologies increase evil, as soot increases darkness by
absorbing light.
The works of Love continue, just as the sources of
light continues to shine and dispel the darkness. When
the light goes out the darkness returns. If the works of
love fail then evil returns in much the same way. For
this reason the greatest commandment is that people love
one another.
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