Agape and a Dream to Remember: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere"

By Mel Seesholtz
Created Jan 16 2007 - 8:18am

The word "agape" literally means "love." More specifically, in the New
Testament it referred to the fatherly love of God for mankind. The term and
concept extended to the love of one's fellow human beings. But the
self-appointed spokesmen for "God" and purveyors of organized religion's
dogma discovered that encouraging hate for some people worked better than
love in maintaining social and political control, and was certainly more
profitable. Sadly, not much has changed today.

The Right Reverend John Shelby Spong was absolutely correct when he said
"Our society gives wide berth to obvious pathology when it is covered by
religious language." And "wide pathology" certainly defines the dogmatic
leaders of the politicized Christian Right, especially the unholy trinity of
Louis P. Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition, James Dobson of Focus
on the Family, and Don Wildmon of the American Family Association.
Perversely, the propaganda organ of Wildmon and the AFA is "Agape Press."