On love, hate, and Mozart
Love the sinner, hate the sin.
Love is stronger than hate.
In the minds of our secular humanists, these are the two pivotal teachings of the Christian Bible they’d like keep for the benefit of enlightened humanity, while tossing the rest of it to the swine. In fact, the Bible does not offer such advice. The closest the first motto comes to the scriptural authority is Augustine’s “Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum” (love of humanity and hatred of sin). Most sources attribute the first motto to Gandhi - hardly a biblical character. Nowhere does the Bible teach that the sinner should be separated from the sin or suggest that such a separation is possible. Theologically, this is nonsense; that Gandhi produced a lot of nonsense (his collected works occupy 100+ volumes) is hardly a secret to people who actually bothered to read this celebrated sage.
Ditto for love being stronger than hate. The Bible teaches that Love is stronger than Death - and guess whose love is that. Where does this piece of folk wisdom come from? Google produces Roseanne Barr, Bob Rae, Desmond Tutu, and the loose assortment of aging rock stars recovering from protracted drug abuse.
Now, if you want to worship the inspired sayings of the most Rev. Desmond Tutu and the great Mahatma Gandhi, this is your personal choice but, please, do not present this gibberish as ageless human wisdom rescued from the dirty hands of religious fanatics. These are your own best ideas, by your own best minds, in the only form these minds are capable of. And here is the further development of the doctrine by one of such aspiring minds:
...я так скажу: самая лицемерная и показушная любовь эффективнее самой праведной ненависти. В общем, слушайте Моцарта, он об этом. http://taki-net.livejournal.com/1107174.html
Yeah, right.
Love is stronger than hate.
In the minds of our secular humanists, these are the two pivotal teachings of the Christian Bible they’d like keep for the benefit of enlightened humanity, while tossing the rest of it to the swine. In fact, the Bible does not offer such advice. The closest the first motto comes to the scriptural authority is Augustine’s “Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum” (love of humanity and hatred of sin). Most sources attribute the first motto to Gandhi - hardly a biblical character. Nowhere does the Bible teach that the sinner should be separated from the sin or suggest that such a separation is possible. Theologically, this is nonsense; that Gandhi produced a lot of nonsense (his collected works occupy 100+ volumes) is hardly a secret to people who actually bothered to read this celebrated sage.
Ditto for love being stronger than hate. The Bible teaches that Love is stronger than Death - and guess whose love is that. Where does this piece of folk wisdom come from? Google produces Roseanne Barr, Bob Rae, Desmond Tutu, and the loose assortment of aging rock stars recovering from protracted drug abuse.
Now, if you want to worship the inspired sayings of the most Rev. Desmond Tutu and the great Mahatma Gandhi, this is your personal choice but, please, do not present this gibberish as ageless human wisdom rescued from the dirty hands of religious fanatics. These are your own best ideas, by your own best minds, in the only form these minds are capable of. And here is the further development of the doctrine by one of such aspiring minds:
...я так скажу: самая лицемерная и показушная любовь эффективнее самой праведной ненависти. В общем, слушайте Моцарта, он об этом. http://taki-net.livejournal.com/1107174.html
Yeah, right.