You shall love your neighbor as yourself,
because I am the Lord.
A long time ago, oh, four or five thousand years
ago, the Lord God Almighty looked out over creation to see how it was
going. Frankly, the Lord was disturbed
by the view. All over the world, people
worshipped strange gods. There was a god
who liked war. There was a goddess who
helped people succeed in business. There
was a god who specialized in politicians, telling them that, whatever they
wanted to do, their god was behind them 100%.
In fact, for whatever interest or desire anybody
ever had, there was a god who supported that interest or supplied that desire:
power, prestige, control of neighboring nations, wealth, good sex life, even
obedient children!
And in the midst of them all, the Almighty could
not find – himself.
