Those who say love should be "properly oriented" know little about love or its potential. Augustine thought love should be oriented to the one unchangeable being, ie God, for all other things are subject to change and therefore lacking in perfection. But he failed to realize that love demonstrates its true power in being directed at the changeable.
"He demonstrated his love in this: that while we were still sinners..."
But love 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. His followers were left to love Love.
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