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No
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I think love of God and His World and Humanity IS a religion. +4
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I would suppose it could be if you worshipped that person I wouldn't suggest it tho, it would be terrible if you caught your "god" cheating on you.
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Interesting question. The danger with that proposition is that a religious system is only as valid as the object to which it points. Faith is only as valid as the object in whom it trusts. Love is not an end in itself. Love is not a person in whom one trusts. Love as a "religion" is idolatry, because you will end up worshiping the behavior. And in the complexity of human relations, you will fatigue of behaving in a loving way. Love is as fickle an emotion as any other. Taken to its logical extreme, if you fail to love, and love is your religion, to whom then do you repent? Do you repent to yourself for failing to love? Do you repent to the other person? Then, by what definition do you know if you have loved sufficiently? Is love wrapped up in how you felt about how you behaved? Is it based on the other's approval of your behavior? What about relationships with people with whom you can never be reconciled? If you fail to be reconciled, does that mean that you sin against "love"? If you have to scold someone, then are you no longer loving them? Do you have to force yourself to like someone that you genuinely dislike because love is your religion? Love can not realistically be a religion because it has no person in whom it trusts (except perhaps yourself, which is idolatry, and since you can fail yourself, you are trusting in someone who can fail) and the character of "faith" is nebulous. In fact, you would re-define "faith" to mean "love" if love is the religion. Love is not a viable religion: There are too many logical inconsistencies and human emotional frailties.
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