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Who upon hearing the beginning of this expression (“We don’t have to like everyone but we have to love everyone”) can’t finish the whole thing reflexively?
How low shooting it is when you give ithis expression a real Christian going-over!
A priest once told a group of men that I was part of: “No, we pretty much have to put the effort in to like everyone too”.
And he’s precisely right.
It’s easy to “write off” people today…“I don’t like his political views, I don’t like the way he fathers, I don’t like her looks, I don’t like her way.”
The intellect (of a person) that has become servile to our lower appetites can invent reasons at the drop of a hat for not liking someone.
But were we to swallow our preferences, were we to put our pride in the “trunk” gagged, were we to put more effort into learning about this or that person, their upbringing, their struggles…the more we’d learn to like them and not just sappily “love them” in the abstract and at a distance.
How low shooting it is when you give ithis expression a real Christian going-over!
A priest once told a group of men that I was part of: “No, we pretty much have to put the effort in to like everyone too”.
And he’s precisely right.
It’s easy to “write off” people today…“I don’t like his political views, I don’t like the way he fathers, I don’t like her looks, I don’t like her way.”
The intellect (of a person) that has become servile to our lower appetites can invent reasons at the drop of a hat for not liking someone.
But were we to swallow our preferences, were we to put our pride in the “trunk” gagged, were we to put more effort into learning about this or that person, their upbringing, their struggles…the more we’d learn to like them and not just sappily “love them” in the abstract and at a distance.
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