Hey, I'm Natasha Crane, and I'm Elisa Childers.

Welcome to Unshaken Faith, where we equip you to live your Christian faith

boldly in a chaotic culture. If there's one thing everyone agrees on today, it's that love matters and everyone should be loving.

So whether you're a Christian, a secular humanist,

a Muslim, a Mormon, or anything else,

you almost certainly agree that love is one of the most important values

for humans.

What we've seen in recent years is that love has taken such pride of place in American culture

that it has ousted pretty much every other value.

People have boiled everything in life down to a singular focus on love and in a

very practical sense they've made it their religion, effectively claiming that if everyone

would just choose love, the world would leave behind all its current divisions.

I mean, didn't we try this in the 60s? All you need is love, the Beatles song.

But to be clear, it isn't a straw man to suggest that people see love as their religion.

If you Google it, you'll find all kinds of t-shirts, mugs, songs, and more that proudly and quite literally state,

Love is my religion.

Today we want to respond to several quotes

and memes around this theme,

that love is all that matters,

particularly because it's a claim

that people often use to oppose

biblical doctrine, morality, and Christianity in general. But first, let's hit some

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