Re: Certainly


Subject: Re: Certainly
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2002 - 18:46:36 GMT


love means a great deal, but it does not mean "unconditional support."
Loving an alcoholic doesn't mean supporting his alcoholism. Loving an
overeater doesn't mean supporting their bad eating habits. And loving a
pure-t-jackass doesn't mean looking the other way every time they're a
jackass (if I remember right, this was the original context of our
discussion). Love isn't sentimentality. It isn't necessarily cushy.
Since we seem to be dealing with something remotely related to love in
the sense expressed in Christ's teachings, you get the feeling Christ
called the Pharisees snakes and vipers and hypocrites because he loved
them, not in spite of that...

love means nothing when it means always being nice. Love isn't
"niceness."

Jim

Suzanne Morine wrote:
>
> At 04:58 PM 1/10/2002 -0500, Jim Rovira wrote:
> >Suzanne, loving people doesn't mean supporting them, necessarily, in all
> >their bad habits :).
>
> Uh, whoa.. then does love mean anything at all? Is love just sentiment in
> that case? Or is it just a mental exercise? I think love stands up for
> something, it means something! Otherwise, advocating loving everyone isn't
> much of a statement at all -- it's "much ado about nothing." Love without
> works, that sort of thing.
>
> Suzanne
>
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