Honestly it's hard to really consider it a good idea to give unconditional love to anyone but your own children (even if adopted, if the conscious choice is made to do so and not just because your drug-addict sibling pawned them off on you.) Or maybe love is just too strong a word for it; yes a sense of cooperation for mutual benefit should be aspired to but since we can't trust everyone to either agree to that or comprehend it enough to put it into practice, it's not practical to go into anything with that as a default assumption.
But there's no better example of even the most obvious situations for unconditional love to apply being corrupted into the exact opposite than when religion is involved. Families disowning their non-hetero-oriented kids or those who've come to the conclusion that the family's faith is exactly what it objectively is. I've noticed a strong correlation between this effect, and the amount of respect demanded by religion when no justification for it is given. It's so ass-backwards. Unconditional familial love is withheld, while undeserved respect is demanded.
But there's no better example of even the most obvious situations for unconditional love to apply being corrupted into the exact opposite than when religion is involved. Families disowning their non-hetero-oriented kids or those who've come to the conclusion that the family's faith is exactly what it objectively is. I've noticed a strong correlation between this effect, and the amount of respect demanded by religion when no justification for it is given. It's so ass-backwards. Unconditional familial love is withheld, while undeserved respect is demanded.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
