Reading Day 8
LoveSF #essay, #poem, #love, #bible, #believe, #upbringings
‘…it requires that one distinguishes and separates within the diversity, and that one chooses the single object of one’s gratitude and one’s affection. Very endoxal idea that to love is to choose, to eliminate, and thus to destroy “the remainder” + assimilation of the multiplicity of desires to indecision and, from there, to softness, to the “limp” = vitalist idea: what lives is only alive if it destroys what is around itself. Roland Barthes According to this, love is a sensation that involves choice. This means that love is something reserved to a certain particularity and it has to do with individuality. In this way love can be determined as something egoistic and selfish. Remarkable is the fact that love is always slightly differently understood in Christianity. However, the way Christianity expresses love can be conceived as questionable, imaginary, and even magical. Since love is something you can’t touch, but something you feel, this certainly makes room for relative interpretation of what love is. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 bible ‘4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.’ In contrast to the interpretation of love being a choice, the bible interprets love as something general and humble. In the passage above, the bible also brings the interpretation of love as being something safe. In this general way of speaking about love, the bible suggest that love should represent the exclusion of discrimination. But how real is this? Since, the bible also talks about how God abominates some people. Leviticus 18:22 bible ‘22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: It is an abomination.’ However, the bible wants you to believe that everyone can be loved by God. Rather than just give an interpretation of what love is, there
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