Declaring War on Contempt: The Radical Idea of Loving Your Enemies

We need to declare war on contempt. Are you contemptuous of people who don’t hold your views ideologically, politically? Are you? How would I know? I would look at you. And when that person turns up on the television, you roll your eyes, you make a sarcastic or derisive comment. That will get you divorced, by the way. But that will give us a collective societal desire for divorce, which is the problem that we have, which is destroying the happiness in this country and around the world. We need to declare war on contempt. P. And if I told you that Esther, my wife and I, that were civil to each other, like, wow, you guys need some counseling, or that we need to be more tolerant of each other, like, oh, yeah, it’s okay. It’s good. I’m a Christian. I tolerate you. That’s not the standard of good leaders, let alone Christian leaders. What do we need? You know what we need in a polarized society? We don’t agree. I got the most transgressive, radical idea you’ve ever heard. This is brand new. I made it up. Love your enemies. Yeah, crazy. Машканче I know you don’t feel it I know you don’t feel it it doesn’t matter happiness isn’t a feeling love isn’t a feeling either here’s love this is Thomas Aquinas we Catholics call him Saint Thomas Aquinas to love is to will the good of the other he doesn’t talk about feeling the good of The other he talks about will. You don’t feel love? Good. Do it anyway. It’s an act. It’s a decision. See? See? Love is as hard as Flint. Jesus didn’t say to like your enemies. Marvin the king said to like is a sentimental something. Jesus said to love your enemies. Because only then, then are you in control. And can you redeem your enemies? Can you persuade your enemies? Can you lift up your enemies? When you make the decision to love?