> At 10:58am -0500 1/11/98, Michael Lorrey wrote:
> >The concept of God a) in the christian meme primarily represents
> >eternal, unconditional love
>
> Yes, but how many Christians love gays, Moslems, atheists, cloners,
> abortionists, contraceptive users, prostitutes, punk rockers, polygamists,
> etc? Ninety-nine percent of those who preach love actually practice hate.
> In reality, I know of no major Christian denomination that really practices
> unconditional love.
>
A lack of tolerance is different from hate. They do have this saying "love the
sinner but hate the sin". I disagree that the denominations/memes themselves
practices hate, but that such memes are vulnerable to infection from xenophobic
instincts and memes.
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