Comments on: Love is unconditional and accepts us for who we are

By: James Riemermann

James Riemermann — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:47:07 +0000

Martin, I'm sorry the nontheist friends site was down when you originally tried to reply. I recently responded here: http://www.nontheistfriends.org/Home/p2000_articleid/10 Interesting to hear about Liz Phair. Her first record "Exile in Guyville" still knocks me out: fearless, lacerating, vulnerable, poetic. I haven't heard any of her more recent stuff, but it amazed me to hear it described as silly trashy sex-kitten pop. I can't help thinking she means this phase as a joke so ironic I can't understand it.

By: Mitchell Santine Gould

Mitchell Santine Gould — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:42:23 +0000

I thought this post was both well conceived and well written. I find it compelling and helpful.
My only reservation is not with the position expressed here, but with the term “unconditional love.”
There was a time, more than ten years ago, that I readily accepted there must be something to this idea of “unconditional love.”
With the passage of time, now I suspect is it really a contradiction in terms. I reject it as harmful to the concept of love.

By: Martin Kelley

Martin Kelley — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:22:00 +0000

I’ll start off the first comment by noticing how nicely this dovetales with my denunciation of Liz Phair as the “spawn of the devil”:http://www.nonviolence.org/martink/liz_phair_is_the_spawn_of_the_devil.php this morning. Okay okay, maybe I need to unconditionally love her despite the horrible songs that are both intensely catchy and intensely cloying!