Religion.Love.LGBT.
Love is one small simple word that has caused so many problems during the history of humanity. A word with many different meanings. It is something that has transcended throughout history from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to contemporary ideals of love such as possesses and consumer love. Ultimately love is always a good thing if its love between mother and child, man and woman, man and man, cat and dog, human and animal. St Paul on his chapter about love of the first epistle to the Corinthians, mentioned that the gift of love has the most power of all the values. He points that love is the desire for happiness and goodness. It is the power to overcome the strength of our ego. Love is a style of life; people without love as part of their lives have no moral value. Love is the total gift of self to another, with no ownership or integration being unconditional. Love should be patient and good, with no envy, and no boasting as the bible encourages through the commandant of ‘Love thy neighbor as yourself’. When you have love you do not rejoice in justice, you rejoice the truth. Love is forever and has no ending. Compared with faith, hope and charity, love is stronger and everlasting. For me love is a very rare feeling, rare and precious. We use the word love so easily, but we do not understand the real meaning of it. Love exists in many forms, in different relationships, even between people and inanimate possessions. These days most people forget the real meaning of love, and they fall in love with material goods and most of all, money. This is a contemporary ideal of love, to please people with possessions and material objects, reflecting their love for the other person. This is a very contrasting attitude to love compared with love in a traditional way. Religious beliefs of love incorporate and idolize these traditional values within a relationship. The most common form of love is between human beings. When we are born the first form of...