Is Lack Of Love Evil?

[Sunstone]

If God is Good, and

God is love,

Is lack of love seperation from God?

And is lack of love evil?

 

[klubbhead024]

If God is Good, and

God is love,

Is lack of love seperation from God?

And is lack of love evil?

Maybe alck of love would be athiesm

 

[Gentoo]

If God is Good, and

God is love,

Is lack of love seperation from God?

And is lack of love evil?

I think that lack of love, is just that: lack of love or an emptiness. Along those lines, if love is good, and hate is evil, well then just because I don't love someone doesn't automatically mean that I hate them.

A lack of one thing doesn't always mean an abundance of another.

 

[doppelganger]

If God is Good, and

I can't buy that premise.

God is love,

I can buy that one, though.

Is lack of love seperation from God?

Yes. Lack of love is the absence of the experience of "God."

And is lack of love evil?

No.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

If we look at love and hate as a spectrum, then lack of love would be zero. That would make it neutral. There are those who would say that those without love are fencesitters, and would therefore go to hell (or limbo, depending on who you talk to. Dante had a pretty horrible punishment for fencesitters, but I don't remember what it was.

I, personally, don't see those without love as evil. It would be like calling an empty glass evil. It just needs to be filled...

 

[Willamena]

If God is Good, and

God is love,

Is lack of love seperation from God?

And is lack of love evil?

*double-checks which forum this is* Ah, okay... Well, I don't believe that lack of love is "evil," no, but then I don't have a definition of "evil" that I'm satisified with. I also don't think separation from god is "evil," or even possible.

 

[YmirGF]

I don't believe that lack of love is inherently "evil" per se, but rather it facilitates the ability to do what some may see or perceive as being "evil' acts. If you look on a shopkeeper with compassion and kindness (read: "love") you wouldn't be as inclined to steal from him/her/it. If you truly love your spouse you would understand how much a thrilling one-night stand would hurt them and in theory not ever want to do so. etc...

But... I could be wrong.

 

[Scuba Pete]

If God is Good, and

God is love,

Is lack of love seperation from God?

And is lack of love evil?​

THAT'S IT!

You have summed it up better than anyone else. Hell is merely the absense of God (Love). Heaven is love to the nth power.
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[BruceDLimber]

Hi!

I wouldn't necessarily equate lack of love directly with evil, but the two appear to have at least a casual connection (if not a causal one).

This is because, according to the Baha'i scriptures, evil doesn't exist as any sort of active "force" but instead is the relative lack of good, just as darkness isn't an active "thing" but rather is the lack of light.

So given that love is a virtue (and hence good), lack of love is relatively evil in comparison even though not necessarily an active entity.

It thus might be appropriate to describe it not so much as evil per se, but as a (relatively) dreary contrast to the beauty and virtue of love.

Peace,

Bruce

 

[Kungfuzed]

I can be pretty sure that my car doesn't love me or anything else for that matter. Yet there is nothing intrinsically evil about it either.

 

[gnomon]

Lack of love, as perceived by most people, could just as likely derive from a physiological condition than anything else. Other than that, social conditions.

I do not accept the notion of spiritual lacking as a cause of anything, including evil, in this world.

 

[Comprehend]

If God is Good, and

God is love,

Is lack of love seperation from God?

And is lack of love evil?

Because nobody is arguing this side, I will say yes and yes. In the same way that the lack of light is darkness. The middle ground would be partial love, not the complete lack thereof.

 

[PureX]

I think we're confusing different scales and values. The lack of love is indifference. So that's one scale. While hate, I think, is more the result of frustrated expectations. So that's a different scale. The lack of goodness is just the lack of goodness. The other end of that scale would just be the lack of goodness. Evil, to me, is more a willful assault on goodness, and is not really something that can be scaled.

I don't think love automatically equals goodness. Love is a state of being, while goodness is a value judgment.

 

[Ozzie]

If God is Good, and

God is love,

Is lack of love seperation from God?

And is lack of love evil?

There is a logical separation between lack of love (if God is love) and evil. Yes I think lack of love is separation from God, but that is life, not evil.

 

[Pardus]

I don't believe anything is evil, but lack of love is doubleplus bad.

 

[cardero]

And is lack of love evil?

Lack of Love falls into the catagory of misunderstanding and there is nothing inherently evil about ignorance.

 

[sojourner]

If God is Good, and

God is love,

Is lack of love seperation from God?

And is lack of love evil?

Intentionally not loving is selfish and separates us from God. Lack of love is ambivalence. Again...selfishness. Sefishness is sin.

 

[cardero]

Is loving oneself a sin?

 

[sojourner]

Is loving oneself a sin?

No. We're commanded to love ourselves. Self-love is not selfishness. Selfishness is actually a by-product of having not loved ourselves.

 

[lunamoth]

No. We're commanded to love ourselves. Self-love is not selfishness. Selfishness is actually a by-product of having not loved ourselves.

Excellent point Sojourner! I think this idea often gets lost when we talk about being selfless.