Those who say love should be "properly oriented" know little of love or love's potential. Augustine believed those things which are subject to change must lack in perfection and therefore love should be oriented to the one unchangeable being: God. But he failed to realize that love demonstrates its true power in being directed at and sustaining the changeable:
"God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
But the love the thirteenth apostle spoke of (a love that in order to count for anything in death, had to first live) was betrayed by those later writers who made a mockery of this "demonstration" by having Jesus "ascend into the clouds" while his disciples stood gaping at love raised to the level of an abstraction. The whole world was left to love Love.
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