Love for all

Ah yes, the blessed words of love. God loves everyone, so I love everyone. Everyone should love everyone. How wonderful those words sound. How inspiring to the ear, yet so hollow in practice. I love all people, except for those who don't love as I do. It is the same as the naive and shallow excuse for tolerance that is so frequently spewed out these days - I tolerate everyone, except for those who don't tolerate everyone. Well, it is not admitted so, but in practice it is very much so. Christians have long been villanized by such nonsense, and in their own turn, victimize others in much the same way. Tit for tat, I suppose. But a damn shame either way. We are so quick to love those who agree with us - and even faster to villanize those who don't. Ah, the sweet smell of self-righteousness. How it warms the hearts of the faithful of each opposing camp. Staring back at each other across the verbal (and too often physical) battlefield, smug in our ignorant and proud 'love!' Ah, where oh where is love - god is love - how I despair, for my hope is proved false, my salvation an empty dream.