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One trope that remains thrown around in contemporary discourse is the phrase “Love is Love.” I hope it is not lost on the reader that love is not the contention. Nobody says they stand for hate. Does the phrase tell you anything at all? It is not intended to; in fact, the tactic is to make the argument appear as something else. This is also the employing of a thought terminating cliche. It makes people think the argument has been had, the issue is settled, and the opposing side is something else.

As one can expect with such a manipulative sleight of hand, this is an excellent example of the BITE model of cults. By implementing a thought terminating cliche, you can control the Behavior, the Information (by stopping conversation), Control the thought and Emotion of a cult member. By controlling words like “love” you can see the LGBT Woke cult exerts thought control over it’s members, willing and otherwise.

You can see why the model is used by the Left and the sexual devolutionaries today. As all contra-natural movements, it is chaotic and disorderly. Which means the confusion of words is a necessary result and tactic just like the serpent’s first assault on the word of God in Genesis 3. If you have an ideology that can’t win on a rational basis, what alternative is there but to sow disorder and confusion?

When you are trying to play God, what else can you do but pretend to create by the power of your word? Feigning divinity by declaring words with meanings of your own.

What is love by this cultural milieu of the LGBTQ(+++++)? It is affirming a selected impulse as identity. It is causing no offense to this more, that ye shall be as gods. Ultimately today you know who is “loving” by not hurting the feelings of those who refuse to be creatures, and those who refuse to be creatures the most are the one’s who can be offended the least. Loving has become synonymous frankly, with enabling.

But Love is more than this faux kindness. Love seeks the good of the other, not simply what makes the other feel good.

¹² “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 7:12

“Ah! So let me sin!” they may say. I paraphrase, but I have heard the exact argument, I am not kidding.

Here Jesus presupposes biblical law, and biblical love. This is not do to everybody what everybody likes, but what is best to others. Whereas it was wisdom among many rabbis to say “don’t do to others what you wouldn’t have them do to you” Jesus inverts this as a positive action. Instead of not hurting others, a common trope in our “spiritual but not religious” age (the religion of a dying civilization), or the common temptation of focusing on yourself, seek the good of another. You may hear that (albeit less honestly expressed) as this verse is right up there with “judge not lest ye be judged,” ignoring “but when you judge” follows.

7 “Judge not, that you be not judged. ² For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. ³ Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? ⁴ Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Matthew7:1-5

As you can see in context, Jesus is not telling you to never judge, he is warning you about what judgement invites. What Jesus condemns is the spirit of self-righteousness that seeks to elevate ones-self over others.

The loving thing to do is to judge rightly. Jesus assumes you will judge, he warns about judging lovingly with a willingness to be examined by your brother as well. Love doesn’t look the other way, neither does it obsess with a false sense of superiority, looking for faults in others. It looks to build one another up.

6 Brothers,^[a] if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. ² Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Ephesians 6:1

Sounds like a little judging, and sounds like the positive command of doing to others what is best for them, what they would admit is best.

⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;^[a] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Notice how opposite this is to what the Woke are today. Those claiming “love is love” and that to follow them is to “love your neighbor” show no biblical fruits of doing so, merely empty words. The ideology produces arrogant self-righteousness, it is irritable, resentful, rejoices in riots and wrongdoing, rejoices in a lie if it furthers a narrative or hurts those better off than yourself. It does not bear anything for anyone and cannot endure anything for anyone else.

³⁰ And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ ³¹ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Mark 12:30-31

If you do not love God, how can you love anything he has created? If you do not love God you cannot truly love anybody else.

You know how to love your neighbor by God’s law, the moral law which is forever and the instruction of the civil law which serves in it’s general equity. We do not need to guess at it, for God has given us the foundation.

Take the aforementioned “Love is love” excuse for sin. God’s law prohibits it (Leviticus 18, Matthew 19:9), would it be loving to encourage them in the same? God loves perfectly, and his prohibitions are for your good as sexual sin is particularly harmful as well as an affront to his design (1 Corinthians 6:18). Are you loving your neighbor by celebrating their self-harm? No, you are not.

The Greek is Ἡ ἀγάπη, a deep committing love. Here we see a real love bears all things for another, it is devoted to the good of the other. There may come a time where you may have to walk away, as staying would enable a sin pattern and do yourself harm. But it still hopes for the good of the other.

Woke does not want that. Woke wants it’s sin because it hates the things of God.

Biblical love feeds, builds, strengthens devoting towards mutual strengthening and comfort.

Woke drains because it is rooted in sin. It is vampiric and is no love at all. It is simply what we, fallen creatures that we are, wish it to be. But love wants what’s best for us, no matter what you wish were so.

It must be said that on the whole we Christians have failed the war of words and meaning. Sinners have been unashamed of their sins and Christians ashamed of their virtue. Sinners have loved the darkness and Christians have been ashamed of the Truth. All for the fear of men who will perish if we don’t preach it to them, and in place of the God who is forever.

²⁶ “Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

Luke 6:26

When those who lie and do not know love hate you, take heart for they hated Christ first. Only love, real and true love can overcome the evil of our age, and that requires loving what is true.