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A festival of hate
Author: TriSec    Date: 06/30/2015 10:02:26

Good Morning.

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled “Ask a Vet” for a special blog. AAV will air in its entirety on Saturday Morning – don’t forget to tune in!


So last Friday, America changed for the better. I was actually stunned by the news, and spent quite a few minutes bumbling giddily around my desk until I was able to settle down again.

Predictably, haters flooded the interwebs with vile spew and speculation, hatred for love and lovers, and complete disrespect, IMHO, for that veritable institution they claim to cherish so much. In an effort to be helpful, I’ve had the crack AAV research team skim several major religious works. Let’s tally up their findings, shall we?

Of course we’ll start with the one we all know best. Two of the three Abrahamic religions refer to this book as their primary text – conveniently broken down into “Old” and “New” sections.

Overall, the term “love” appears in print a whopping 686 times. Of course, some of these are banal references to person X “loves” person Y, and so on. “Hate” only makes 127 appearances, or only about 18% of the “love” total. Interesting.

So let’s move on…next we’ll check in on Mohammed’s writings. “Love” makes just 112 appearances there. But for all the histrionics about Islam being a religion of hate…the word only appears 43 times out of the 114 Surahs, and many of those references are warnings not to do things that are “hateful” towards Allah.

But how about a non-Abrahamic religion? The next largest in the world is probably Hindu; their text is called the “Bhagavad Gita”. I suspect there may be a problem in translating this work, as “love” makes a mere 8 appearances in this text. Surprisingly enough, “hate” makes 15 appearances throughout the work.

I’d take a look over everyone’s friend the Dalai Lama, but if he has even said the word “hate” in his entire lifetime, I’d be surprised. There cannot be even a mote of disagreement in his body. Would that we could all follow this example.

But back to the familiar love and hate we should all know. Remarkably, Jesus did not actually proscribe us to “love the sinner, but hate the sin”. Like most things associated with Jesus, that came much later, and it’s attributed to Saint Augustine:


It’s from St. Augustine. His Letter 211 (c. 424) contains the phrase Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum, which translates roughly to "With love for mankind and hatred of sins." The phrase has become more famous as "love the sinner but hate the sin" or "hate the sin and not the sinner" (the latter form appearing in Mohandas Gandhi’s 1929 autobiography).


But love is probably the most powerful of all. Not wanting to join that festival of hate espoused by the hypocritical so-called “followers of Jesus”, I’ll leave you with something one of his followers actually did say…being Paul in a letter to the Corinthians. Point of fact, this was one of the passages that Mrs. TriSec and I chose to have read at our own wedding.


If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.


The decision of the courts cannot have weakened or disparaged the “institution” of marriage in any way. By following the words of Paul, “The greatest of these is love”, we have only moved ourselves forward…and perhaps closer to the creator.
 

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Comment by wickedpam on 06/30/2015 13:02:17
Morning

Comment by trojanrabbit on 06/30/2015 13:07:15
Morning.

It's so quiet here. The co-ops are done, there won't be any coming in to replace them. The tech is on vacation this week. I'm in the lab alone.

Comment by wickedpam on 06/30/2015 13:16:07
woohoo Randi's gonna be on Steph's show tomorrow!

Comment by Raine on 06/30/2015 13:16:26
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

Randi is going to call into the show tomorrow!

Good morning!

Comment by Raine on 06/30/2015 13:19:43
I love this blog today!

Comment by Raine on 06/30/2015 13:26:25
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG


She gonna be in studio in the future!

Comment by wickedpam on 06/30/2015 13:29:42
Quote by Raine:
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

Randi is going to call into the show tomorrow!

Good morning!



I read that in the voice you have for Duke with a toy XD

Comment by Raine on 06/30/2015 13:31:05
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

Randi is going to call into the show tomorrow!

Good morning!



I read that in the voice you have for Duke with a toy XD
I thought it in that voice too!!!


Comment by wickedpam on 06/30/2015 13:41:42
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

Randi is going to call into the show tomorrow!

Good morning!



I read that in the voice you have for Duke with a toy XD
I thought it in that voice too!!!





Comment by Scoopster on 06/30/2015 14:09:36
Mornin' all..

Wait.. did I hear that correctly? RANDI AND MOMMA TOGETHER AT LAST?!!?!!?!

Comment by wickedpam on 06/30/2015 14:13:27
Quote by Scoopster:
Mornin' all..

Wait.. did I hear that correctly? RANDI AND MOMMA TOGETHER AT LAST?!!?!!?!



Yep - tomorrow, 2nd hour

Comment by Scoopster on 06/30/2015 14:15:55
Obama proposes a BIG change to overtime pay.

Hopefully it's a reversal of that thing the GOoPers did a few years back that killed overtime pay for folks who have biweekly pay periods.

Comment by wickedpam on 06/30/2015 14:20:43
Raine - forgot - the brands of shoes I have are mostly Clarks and Softspots. How fancy do the shoe's have to be cause I found these

Comment by Raine on 06/30/2015 14:24:46
Quote by wickedpam:
Raine - forgot - the brands of shoes I have are mostly Clarks and Softspots. How fancy do the shoe's have to be cause I found these

Those are really nice.

The only requirement: closed toed, but this is a really good start


Comment by wickedpam on 06/30/2015 14:33:44
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Raine - forgot - the brands of shoes I have are mostly Clarks and Softspots. How fancy do the shoe's have to be cause I found these

Those are really nice.

The only requirement: closed toed, but this is a really good start



They aren't as cute but there is these The brands pretty good too.

Comment by Raine on 06/30/2015 16:32:32
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Raine - forgot - the brands of shoes I have are mostly Clarks and Softspots. How fancy do the shoe's have to be cause I found these

Those are really nice.

The only requirement: closed toed, but this is a really good start



They aren't as cute but there is these The brands pretty good too.
Ideally I would like a nice low heal wedge shoe.


Comment by wickedpam on 06/30/2015 16:52:44
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Raine - forgot - the brands of shoes I have are mostly Clarks and Softspots. How fancy do the shoe's have to be cause I found these

Those are really nice.

The only requirement: closed toed, but this is a really good start



They aren't as cute but there is these The brands pretty good too.
Ideally I would like a nice low heal wedge shoe.



hmmmm- well here are all the wedges not too many with a fully closed toe - but Naturalizer and Clarks have a peep toe style

Hey, look at use controlling the bus with shoe talk

Comment by Raine on 06/30/2015 16:54:22
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Raine - forgot - the brands of shoes I have are mostly Clarks and Softspots. How fancy do the shoe's have to be cause I found these

Those are really nice.

The only requirement: closed toed, but this is a really good start



They aren't as cute but there is these The brands pretty good too.
Ideally I would like a nice low heal wedge shoe.



hmmmm- well here are all the wedges not too many with a fully closed toe - but Naturalizer and Clarks have a peep toe style

Hey, look at use controlling the bus with shoe talk
right?


Comment by wickedpam on 06/30/2015 16:55:35
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Raine - forgot - the brands of shoes I have are mostly Clarks and Softspots. How fancy do the shoe's have to be cause I found these

Those are really nice.

The only requirement: closed toed, but this is a really good start



They aren't as cute but there is these The brands pretty good too.
Ideally I would like a nice low heal wedge shoe.



hmmmm- well here are all the wedges not too many with a fully closed toe - but Naturalizer and Clarks have a peep toe style

Hey, look at use controlling the bus with shoe talk
right?





Comment by TriSec on 06/30/2015 16:56:41
So, our wee little gerbil passed on this morning. Losing teeny furbabies isn't any easier than the bigger kind.



Comment by Will in Chicago on 06/30/2015 16:56:56
Hello, bloggers!!!

I fear that what we are seeing among conservatives is a fear of change and a fear of loss of power. I do not understand why granting someone else the rights that I enjoy weakens me. Rather, I think such actions as making same-sex marriage legal invites more people to act as mutual guarantors of our rights.

TriSec, well written and moving. I would argue that it is love that makes us humane, and that the more love we share with others, the more compassion we usually receive in return.

Comment by trojanrabbit on 06/30/2015 17:11:51
Quote by TriSec:
So, our wee little gerbil passed on this morning. Losing teeny furbabies isn't any easier than the bigger kind.




Comment by Raine on 06/30/2015 17:19:09
Quote by TriSec:
So, our wee little gerbil passed on this morning. Losing teeny furbabies isn't any easier than the bigger kind.

I am so sorry, Tri. to the family.


Comment by Scoopster on 06/30/2015 18:01:43
Comment by livingonli on 06/30/2015 18:33:22
Good day, everybody. Last day of vacation so I am kind of just putzing around.

Comment by Scoopster on 06/30/2015 18:34:37
Overheard today...

z: England and Ireland are Europe's testicles
me: would that would make Scotland its throbbing member?
z: Scotland is the growth on one of the testicles, it might be contagious
me: one man's festering growth is another man's mark of manliness?
z: that's a very succinct history of Scotland
me: that's my kin yer slandering, sir! *whitegloveslap*

Comment by Raine on 06/30/2015 18:53:06

oh no….