Did you know that the emotion called love uses about 9 cents worth
of chemicals? I learned this while watching a discussion between Penn
Gilet (an atheist) and a Rabbi on the Blaze network. In this discussion,
they discussed love, and the differences between the types of love and whether
faith is needed to love. So here is what they talked a little bit about.
Faith in love: They discussed if we need more
faith in love itself, so that we might realize, or feel love. For Penn
Gilet, he did not need faith, for he, just knows the emotion love. He
does not need faith (God) to back it up. For Penn, love is just that
love. He does not care if it is a chemical reaction or not, but that the
love for his family is all that he wants or needs to feel love toward someone
else. In a sense he has faith in love even if he has no faith in God.
The Rabbi on the other hand needed love of God to feel love. His
connection with God is so strong that God becomes a part of his love of family.
In that sense, God's love and his love become inseparable.
Greedy in love: Part two of their discussion on
this topic asked if we, the faithful, are being greedy in needing God's love so
that we might feel love. You see, the Rabbi, in the way he said it, made it
sound as if God's love was inseparable to love of each other. But Penn
pointed out that it might be us being greedy. Again, Penn being an
atheist just needs the emotion, and needs nothing else to back it up as he has
faith in love. The Rabbi, in response said that yes, he was being greedy needing
God's love to love others, but to him that was a part of loving another.
That loving another as per our own emotions, and through God allows us to
love both sinner and saint alike, not to mention family.
Evidence of Love: From here it evolved into a debate
on if we need evidence of love so as to not dismiss it all as a chemical
reaction. Penn says no for the emotions he feels toward his daughter are
real enough. The Rabbi answered that we do in fact need evidence, for
love to him comes through God. Together it highlighted that some people
need evidence while others do not, but that evidence comes through faith and
not science. In this case, love to an atheist was real and something he
could have faith in on its own, while the Rabbi needed Gods support, or the
faith in God as a lens to have love feel real.
Conclusion: So this discussion (mind you, this is one
of many things discussed) differentiates between a love through the eyes of the
faithful, and the eyes of those who do not need faith. Neither one,
dismissed love as a simple chemical reaction as each put their faith into love
itself. As such, love has a different element that allows even those with
unscientific and scientific minds to believe in something greater. This
is what I got out of the interview, that love really cannot be explained by
faith, or science. Love simply is and that some get greedy with love, or
need support with love, etc. In the end, love really seems to conquer.
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