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Quote of the Day: Love and Hate
“I know there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.” – Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer spoke these words ironically, as a joke. Yet it has become a progressive mantra in the last few years. Some businesses post signs saying words to the effect that they love everyone – haters stay out. Progressives post signs on their lawns proclaiming “Love Trumps Hate,” while hating Trump and anyone who does not actively hate Trump. They claim saying “all lives matter” is racist, without attempting to explain logically how that can be true. They say “love is the answer” while slamming the door in the face of anyone who might point out that is not necessarily always true.
What I find most frightening is they do not see any contradiction between these words and their actions. None.
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Wasn’t it Unitarians who believe Moses came down the mountain with the Ten Suggestions?
One of my Comparative Religion profs had a wild sense of humor. He loved George Carlin’s line, “Do you realize that if Jesus had lived in the twentieth century, we would all be wearing little electric chairs around our necks?”
Well, if we’re turning this into a Unitarian joke thread…
A man buys a new Dallara Stradale. He’s had it imported from Italy, done all the paperwork to get it street legal. He decides to take it to church for a blessing. He goes into his local Roman Catholic parish church and says, “Father, I’d like a blessing for my new Dallara Stradale.”
The priest looks a little confused, “Surely, my son. I would be happy to bless it. But what is it? Is it the designer of the suit you’re wearing? Maybe those nice shoes?”
“No, Father,” the man shakes his head, “Never mind.”
He goes out and is driving around town. He starts to think about it, “You know, some of the Protestants are a bit more worldly, maybe a Protestant preacher would know. We don’t have a mega-church in town, but there is one that’s kind of large.”
So, he drives over to First Baptist and goes in to see the minister, “Fa…, uh, I mean, Reverend, I’d like a blessing for my new Dallara Stradale.”
“I reckon I’d be happy to do it, young man, but what in the world is a Dallara Stradale?”
“Never mind,” he again walks away disappointed. As he’s driving around he decides he’s being too hard on the religious leaders. It’s his fault for taking the wrong approach.
He sees a Unitarian Church ahead and pulls in. After asking to see the Worship leader, who introduces himself as, “Jim,” he explains, “I am hoping to get a blessing for my new car.”
“A new car? Well, let’s go out and see it,” says Jim.
So they go outside, and Jim is flabbergasted, “Wow! I never thought to see one of these outside of the Internet or a car magazine. This is a Dallara Stradale, isn’t it?”
“Yes, yes!” the car owner gets excited, “Now, can you perform a blessing on it?”
Jim scratches his chin, “That’s the second time you’ve used that word. What, exactly, is a ‘blessing’?”
If I love a child in a manner as a husband knows a wife is that love? If I love my neighbor’s wife is that love? If I love my sister and know her a way husband knows a wife is that love? If I hit my sister’s wife or husband beats her and she still loves her spouse is that love?
These questions illuminate the problem with slogans. The world is more complicated than bumper stickers can explain. But Love is love is about the stupidest sloganeering ever.
Remember when congregations believed in Jesus and G-d?
But… She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah. And with a love like that you know it can’t be bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c7wSRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHSVjmO4iJY
That was clearly written by Lennon so ergo it should be met with great suspicion.