Love must be uneven to be true.

be uneven to be true.

September 4th, 2024.

Introduction in a world filled with leftist levelers, one of the central duties of faithful

Christians, should be to keep everything as uneven as we can. It should be uneven and still truly loving, but it really needs to be truly uneven.

As those who love equity, we must despise the flattening imperative that insists on a particular

kind of soul-roading equality. By this, I mean that if you don't love some people more than

others, then you don't understand yet what it means to love. Let me begin by stating what I mean by this,

and then I will spend a little bit of extra time picking up the pieces, offering definitions as I go.

You should love your mother more than you do other people's mothers.

You should love your children, more than you love the children of another country.

You should love your neighbor, neighbor, more than you love your seatmate neighbor on a three-hour flight.

You should love your own country more than you love other people's countries.

Otherwise, you become like that line from the Mikado, where a man is described as the idiot who praises with enthusiastic

tone every century but this and every country but his own.

And so love to be genuine must be uneven.

This is because all of us are finite and we have to start somewhere.

The distortion.

As we shall see in a moment, the scriptures do summon us to a kind of universal love.

However, this truth has been taken and distorted by those who would flatten the world.

They say that this means that everyone should be loved and treated the same and by everybody.

The end result of this is that nothing is loved except this rancid ideology and everything in everyone is equally

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