HenryMakow.com – May 7, 2022
We get most of our information about life from Hollywood. Most of it is bogus.
Imagine if all those sappy love songs were hymns celebrating God?
What a different world this would be. Guess who controls the music industry.
Romantic love is a fake religion promoted by Satanists to substitute love for a flawed and ultimately dull human being for love of the God within.
All love is really love of God (perfection, bliss.) All true religion is love (worship, obedience) of God. Everything else is a satanist diversion.
Van Morrison proves that great music can be written about love of God.
When will I learn to live in God?
God is the principle of our moral development. If you don’t believe in God, you don’t believe in yourself.
We live in a society that is besotted with beautiful women and sex. This fetish substitutes for religion. Sex and romance are sold as a way of achieving unity with God. The orgasm is the Holy Sacrament. This is Satanism.
The mystification of sex and women (sex Goddess programming) makes men impotent. Men are too weak to approach and enlist women who have been taught to be “strong and independent.” E.g. Leslie Gore’s “You don’t own me” and Linda Ronstadt “Different Drum.”
This combination of idealizing women and emasculating men has led to heterosexual breakdown, e.g. Illuminati social engineering. Femininity is based on trading power for male power in the form of love. Real love is based on mutual dependence and trust, not sexual desire.
People scoff when I say Western society is a satanic cult. However, the proof is obvious. The word “God” is banned from mainstream public discourse. In fact, we are repulsed at His mere mention. Our minds shut down. We become angry. We have been brainwashed to hate God and don’t even know it.
If I were wrong, God would be on our lips. After all, He is the Creative Intelligence behind life. He has Instructions for us. We should be celebrating Him and discussing His Plan.
We can’t mention Him because Cabalist central bankers have their own Plan. They want to be God themselves. Their entertainment is social engineering. This is why we have love songs to vacuous women instead of hymns to God.
Updated from Nov 16, 2021
Our Love Affair with God (Revised)
by Henry Makow PhD
While making a spaghetti sauce, I put on a collection of old Paul Anka hits.
Listening to the lyrics, it struck me: If you imagine the love object is God, instead of some empty-headed girl with regular features, there’s little difference between popular love songs and religious hymns, prayers and chants.
We are all pilgrims and God (Love) is our Mecca
THis kind of article my freinds and i all enjoy and agree with
its only when he runs alone in the world on the Hitler stuff he irritates people !!
best wishes Henty !!
It’s true that romantic love is a fraud — after all, people love their pet dogs and cats. Love of the Jewish Desert Demon, Yahweh, is also a fraud, cobbled up to lead people away from their original ethnic Folk Faitm, animism, which is the true spirituality of all tribes, peoples, and nations. It is time to give the sociopathic old faker his walking papers. And anyhow… what sort of two-bit, low rent spook appears in a burning bush?
Up to & including my courting age, I had seen a fair few films, but I can’t honestly say they affected the feelings that came from within at that time. The biggest influences came from my parents and other adults. I think it is this part where you want to be accepted, which is a feeling that many young sheeple feel, & so, yes, this is a trick, but it is probably more deep-seated in society, a bit like initiations.
I am inclined to believe that nature, even if it is designed (hormones), controls most of our behaviours. Most Hollywood flicks have deeply twisted subplots to the main plot. Because I no longer watch movies, my last example was Top Gun. There are a few romances going on here, some are not obvious. You can be my wingman anytime.
Ghost Who Walks: fraud is the wrong word. Sheeple have babies because their hormones force them to. Some sheeple can fight this and never have kids, or they can’t have children. The rest are forced to have children. It is not Hollywood’s fault.
Very wrong of Makow to put this twist on reality.
@ A Ghost Who Walks;
A ghost is an earthbound entity that has not entered the Light.
You might want to reflect on this when you write comments in support of paganism and idolatry.
Arabs just dominate the women. We knew that.
Ghost who walks, you obviously have never read the bible? it seems that you’re very clueless on this particular topic about spirits That are earthbound and haven’t entered the light Do you have any idea how ridiculous that is? Those demons and that’s what they are ,earthbound Those are the spirits that you would see Nothing more than the demonic spirits ! The bible states to be absent from the body is to be in the presence of the lord! And then in revelations the lord speaks The dead in Christ will rise 1st and will Him in the air And those that are still alive will raptured up with them In the clouds. Oh and by the way The form that god shows in the burning bush He can do what he wants when he wants and how he wants so if he chose to Be visible to Moses in the form of a burning bush That was his decision and he’s purpose for Moses And the glory of god it’s so powerful that nobody can Look upon it directly And that’s probably why he chose the form of the burning bush, No man can look upon Lord’s glory with human eyes.
only humans who got once love can give
love . it is like an amount of treasure . in
case there was once a demon throwing
humanity out of paradise . he surely had
no love + could not give love ! only a
satanical demon shows up in a burning
bush, makes a develish contract with a
human tribe, separating it from rest of
creation as CHOSEN people , orders
jealousy to genocide other tribes . in fact
any spirit of duality (separation,distinction)
is a demonic entety because the highest
power of creation is the power of ONENESS.
in this oneness are also the satanical powers
of duality, without it material universe would
not exist . and them are thrown out, cast on
earth + material universe .its hell! there is no
other hell, only in the mind !
@separating truth from fake
one thing is sure : in prehistoric + stone-
age times there were only natural tribes
in balance with nature and they worshiped
nature, trees, animals, springs,woods, thunder
+ fire . all things important for their existence.
only later THEY created in their minds gods
like until today the hindus with their hundreds
gods. some semitic tribes created IN THEIR
MIND that only one god exists and he had to
be male though ALLAH originaly was female .
“A ghost is an earthbound entity that has not entered the Light.”
Well never having seen a ghost, I haven’t had a chance to interview one, but dear old Henry believed in that romantic stuff so much that he went a long way for a date, and still messed up, and he has never stopped moaning about it ever since.
Poor old Henry! Blub! Blub! Blub!
Here’s a song that could have been written for Henry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GkVhgIeGJQ
Leslie Gore? Linda Ronstadt? A beehived wannabe and a rosey-cheeked, rootsy barnstormer? Wicked harpies, both. Luring men into ungodly error. Flagrant, sinful floosies.
If Linda Rondstadt were ever to call by my house, dressed in those hot pants that she favoured during the Stone Poneys era, (the ones that her backside used to escape from,) I would just have to make my disapproval known to her. I’d tell her that it was insensitive to a man’s feelings for a woman to wear such ill-fitting pants. Oh, yes, sir and, in addition, I’d inform her that it was, in fact, her lucky day – because I am a tailor of considerable skill, capable of fashioning quite exquisite ladieswear. So, Ms. Ronstadt, if you could just get up close while I measure you…
No woman alive is able to resist the man who grooms his moustache daily. A top tip for gentleman, there.
If Henry Makow was one of the Dirty Dozen, he’d be Telly Savalas.
Love may stink, as one old rock song puts it, but the Jew’s so-called and self-styled “God” stinks worse, because he/it is just a Low-Rent volcano demon puffed up by the energy of thousands of years of pain, misery, and death that the Jews created as sacrifices to his entitled, smarmy, spoiled goblin ass. Including slicing up the genitals of their boy children after cuddling and coddling them for eight days.
Romantic love, by the way, emerged during feudal times, to counter the negative ways relations between the sexes had been developing among the ruling families. Look up Troubadours.
Henry is all wet on this one, though his take on “Sex replacing Spirituality” has a grain of truth.
The term “spirituality” itself, is in some ways bogus,though, if you will think about it.
Love is actually a bit of a mystery if you try to analyze it. It always involves an object and our lives if they are to be worth anything we have to love something. The problem is with self love which is not the fault of our capacity to love nor that we are improper objects of it. Rather the problem at lest as far as most religious in the world are concerned is our false selves which our self love keeps puts us in a kind of a time warp restricting or retarding our development in all respects that really matter, and especially the spiritual one. We see the same problem when we tend to spoil the children in our lives whom we dearly love.
If our goal in life was to use our talents and our abilities such that we always tried to give our best no matter how inferior we are to others, that at least would be a liberation from all the softness coming from our ego centricities and comforts in our thoughts and deeds, which in any objective and honest our examination of our lives tends to make us feel rather unfulfilled. I think to make sense of what Henry is trying to say is that the projection of romance by Hollywood as some kind of ultimate in love is just one more sham and big lie of our fallen culture. The fact that you can have romance without real love for another person is most certainly in the realm of Eros. People can love the romance without the person, but most romance does contain a love of the other person, which is a far cry from any real self giving or self abandonment to find and love what is most central and real yet most other.
No matter how we look at the romances in our lives, they do involve an exchange more than just bodily fluids. There is a giving of self and a consuming of the other in all of our relationships but after a series of multiple romances what you tend to find are more superficial and fragmented people. The problem again is that in their love mainly of what they wanted for themselves they were feeding their false selves or a false idea or architype of they really are. When they break a relationship they break off a part of themselves and carry a part of the other person with them which adds to the fragmentation process, at least with respect to the continuity of their own selves. especially when those former relationships have turned sour and were not based on a true and genuine love. This is one of the reasons why when you find a long, good, and happy marriage, that real love and very often God is the center of the relationship.
When we fall in love are we trying to escape our false selves or are we seeing some kind of ideal in the other which we want to be untied with, to be a part of our being, and we to be a part of theirs.
As for love of God and equating love with God, to say that he is Love, my own thoughts are rather meager in that respect. Can anything really be pure love? It seems that love requires an object and that is perhaps why we were made in the first place by God. I always come back to the second question of my first-grade catechism, “Why did God make me?”, with the rote answer we would memorize being, “God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this life, and to be with Him in the next.” It is too bad that those suffering most from the academic diseases of modernity have been running our religious institutions over the past 70 years and seem to have no clue as to what the basics of their faith really are, and instead dish out such ephemeral swill.
Although absolute Goodness resides in God, that Goodness from our point of view is still a quality but one which corresponds to his being and his will. Knowledge is only meaningful relative to the truth and there appears to be a oneness between God’s goodness, his will and what is true and most real. Love as an activity and having an object we understand from our point of view, but the saints tend to say that the Love “of” God is so radiant and pure we would fry in our own impurities if we were to fall close to his presence without being first being redeemed and purified. This teaching seems to make sense at least to me based on the fact that we ourselves tend to love what we regard as good, and make choices based on our own honest or dishonest judgements of things in advance, as if in most circumstances we are like little gods. Our twisted and dishonest judgments are the impurities which most likely separate ourselves from the Love of God, who (as with ourselves) loves what is pleasing in his sight which is what is good from his point of view – meaning that in order to reciprocate in that relationship with him we have to be “good” from his point of view and arrange our choices accordingly. We first have to come to know him and to do that we have to look for him and believe into him.
Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15).
A Teacher (worthy of a capital “T”) once taught, “LOVE IS THE CHANNEL THROUGH WHICH POWER MOVES.” Jesus taught that, too. An Indian guru (say what you will) once opined, “Jesus lost himself in Love.” Yogi Bhajan offered a pithy saying: “Love is not dove.”
As Tina T. sang, rather remorsefully, seems to me, “What’s Love got to do with it?”
You need love when you are small and have to be protected. After that, you might still want it.
you will be always a slave to what you
worship : to a god, a friend, to family,
to work +career ! I WANT TO BE
FREE LIKE A BIRD !
…”God is the principle of our moral development. If you don’t believe in God, you don’t believe in yourself…”
…And if you don’t believe in truth, it’s difficult to believe in anything, that would also include your wife or husband.
When you listen to John Denver, imagine it’s Sonshine on his shoulder.
@ Ann Blu
No real god ever gave any creature a commandment.
Only an imposter god, a tyrant, would trick slaves into obedience with a holy book that list commandments.
All followers of the Bible god are followers of a pretender god wannabe. You are free and always have been free and no other thing can take that freedom from you mind unless you allow the tyrant to take over your mind.
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H.M.’s latest piss on love. Obviously the old fool missed out and uses his platform to deform his readers with his own life’s misery. You get love by being love, if you’ve been a bastard your whole life than it was nobodies fault but your own that you missed out. You just have to reconcile that with yourself and live with it.
The cult of ‘Romance’ is two things. Firstly, the reproductive urge – lust in fancy clothing. Secondly, Matrix brainwash designed to keep men paying.
@ yukon jack
let ann blue her believe ! they are incurable .
i prefere to be a earthbond ghost because
i dont want to be reciclet .
…”God is the principle of our moral development. If you don’t believe in God, you don’t believe in yourself…”
Actually, if you don’t believe that your own thoughts, wishes, emotions and intent are the force which move mountains then you believe in the make believe proxy everyone calls god.
For a Christian to say “God is the principle of our moral development” shows a profound lack of understanding that the God of the Bible is the exact opposite of any morality. Yahweh the monster God of the Jews is hardly the moral guide.
If you try to say Jesus is the new God, one that trumps Yahweh, then why call Yahweh the father god? And if Jesus was real then he would tell you to believe in yourself. And if Jesus was a real avatar he would not have affirmed the Torah, and nor would he have died on the cross for your sins because his father couldn’t just stop his abusive judgment of mankind.
What the Holy Bible does is fool generations of men into believe they are nothing while god is everything. God doesn’t exist, you are the god you have yet to realize, and when you do realize that you have all the magic and power, not the fake believe god of the Bible you will no longer get your truth from a book.
On the question of one sex dominating or them being equal, I prefer a fourth way, but we have not worked it out yet. There have been attempts, as in India, where an astrologer will get involved in match making, and in our world a computer might do the job, but probably have an agenda, such as Race-mixing. Intelligent life should find a solution somehow.
Lewis Jones: I prefer the complementing relationship. Off-piste analogy, sports teams complement each other, workers complement each other, so should couples. This largely fake news destructive power dynamic of waring sexes, is a sheeple thang. Two educated careers-orientated sheeple do not complement each other. This is one reason for dysfunctional lambs. They see how their parent’s relationship, & that becomes their default setting.
There’s no real practical justification for anyone getting hitched these days because the system is transitory. Nothing lasts more than five minutes. Today’s sheeple can’t even dream, because they’d wake up mid-dream to see a text that literally ended their dream, be that a personal relationship or work. Sheeple’s dreams are ruined daily by the regime… oh, let’s plan this, oh, wait, let’s just check what awful proclamations have been made by the regime, & this is almost an hourly feck you up. Sheeple are conditioned to it. CEO’s and CFO’s check their stock price every few minutes & they react to this, they change their plans, so every few minutes, workers are having the plans hung out to dry by the system.
But never mind, no one cares, because they don’t know any different.
To Carl Jones–it is possible to co-operate with the Universe in creating a programme. To make mine, I have to understand the established ones.
I stand by my privous comments in this thread.
I stand by my comments too but I’ll review. The first one of mine was meant to include Makov as one of the “Arabs”, who are invading Europe and bullying blonds in school. My solutions drag far behind the Rothschild programme of simply exterminating White people, but they would be more like the sexes complementing each other than a patriarchy or matriarchy. Makov dislikes the love stories, but you have to look at each film separately, and they were certainly better than Hollywood Satanism and rap, where the women are “bitches and hoes”, an attitude from the Jews and their pornography, and hOLLYWOOD PIMPING, EVEN mk Ultra. (Caps error). I feel like I’m waffling about all the obvious stuff now. Romantic love was better than what we have now. Love of God, well, it has so much doctrinal baggage, and beings who intercede with new messages to play divide-and-rule.
The BEST lesson I ever learnt about “sex goddesses”:
As a callow youth, standing outside a pub in pre-Stan London, on a sweltering summer’s day, with a pint in hand…I must have been drooling as a particulary hot hot hot babe paraded by… subsequently giving me a distainful look as if I was the lowest lifeform on Planet Earth… much to the merriment of a gaggle of boozed-up cockney wankers outside.
It was then that an older aussie bloke put his hand on my shoulder and said; “Dont worry son… marks my words… that b*tch is making someone’s life a TOTAL misery. So thank your lucky stars it aint you!.”
Then, pointing at the mini-skirted trollop as she turned the corner, he added this flourish – in that inimitable way that Aussies have with words – which had me choking on my beer: “And see those legs? They only go right to the top and make a complete c*nt of themselves!!”
we became good friends after that…and there wasnt a “plumper” within a mile of Pimlico that was safe…😅
A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers..
looks round for a coffin…
Greetings, from the Les Visible side of this coin : )
https://vimeo.com/331799887
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
(H. L. Mencken)
why should we love a entety which
hides or does not exist ? I would
love to be left alone to create my own
universum without interference of
others . with others comes only
trouble .
quote: “All true religion is love (worship, obedience) of God.”
Such a statement shows H.M.’s true colors as the con artist Rabbinic priest who demands you worship his god. The god of the priest is his ego. The real God demands no worship nor does the real God have any commandments for you. Those ideas are ridiculous on the face of it and prove the god of obedience is really a tyrant (the ego of the priest).
God – the Creator – does not make you an obedient slave. But a whole lot of men would like that. Men who intellectually dominate their unlearned ‘inferiors’. Here is how it works: the supremacists sees others as lessors needed to be commanded, so the supremacist tells lies to manipulate the minds of men so they do his bidding. Example: a false flag like 911 that manipulates the nation into a war against a contrived enemy.
A true (and unmanipulative) God of Love would see you as an equal. It would never try to command you, or issue commands and watch you break them – as that would prove the lack of omnipotence. An omnipotent being would not say don’t commit adultery then watch you do adultery because by definition the omnipotent being would have an unfulfilled desire of you not being obedient.
Such characteristics assigned to god(s) are just men creating a god in their own image. The Greeks created a pantheon of tyrant gods. We now see that as ridiculous. A jealous God? How can god be jealous a modern mind wonders. Unfortunately many people still do not see that the God of the Bible as a ridiculous tyrant.
Imagine that I am a typical dominant male whose raging testosterone feels the need to keep women barefoot and pregnant. Oorah! The Bible God Yahweh is such a male, kill the other tribe, take their woman and make them your own. Thus the dominant males of our society will be attracted to Yahweh as a role model. Kill, dominate, rape-sex their woman in submission, tolerate no back talk from the bitches. You can see this behavior in the Old Testament and in modern street gangs and pimps.
Some men want other men to be obedient slaves. Yelling and issuing threats all day has it’s limits. So in comes the priest/con artist/intellectual. This priest invents a god and says god wants your obedience. God, you see, is a needy god. It needs you to comply with his commandments. But that is just a mind trick of the priest, it is the priest who wants you to be obedient to his king. So if you take a look at any pyramid of power, the king has his military commander on one side, and his priest on his other side. These three work together to keep the rabble in line and enslaved.
Examine these images:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=pyramid+of+power&iax=images&ia=images
In modern society the control has matured and is very sophisticated, but the principles remain the same. The State gives tax free status to Religion. Religion teaches godly obedience. Obedient trained slaves get in line when the Military Commander/Police rattle their swords. No yelling or overt threats are needed.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pyramid+of+a+capitalist+system&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
Ultimately, religion is a necessary part of the political power structure. That is the clue that Rome wrote the New Testament myth. This is proven in detail in Joseph Atwill’s ‘Ceasars Messiah” book. The priest crowns the king in an elaborate ritual. The priest/king/miltary commander all wear funny costumes to fool you into obedience. The pope wears a mitre 4 feet long – as a symbol that his penis sheath is the biggest and that he is the dominant power.
Here is a picture of the pope in his poop chair in the mouth of the snake:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pope+in+the+mouth+of+a+snake&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
When you worship god what you are really doing is:
1. worshipping the ego of the priest
2. being obedient to a tyrant
3. agreeing and affirming the tyranny
God does not want you obedience, it doesn’t care what you do, it doesn’t need your love (unless it is a parasite). Love is always freely given, with no strings attached, never demanding payment in return, needs no acknowledgment. If God is real Love then God would have those characteristics. If you can be this love, then the Bible falls away a child’s story.
Why does the Pope wear a huge mitre? To prove that he is the biggest dickus.
Biggus Dickus – Monty Python, Life of Brian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx_G2a2hL6U
Romantic love is a myth, and one of comparatively recent origin to boot. It’s just sex – the drive to reproduce, that’s all.
The greatest trick the Jews ever pulled was replacing the god of the Aryans with their ‘god’–thus enchaining the Aryans to Jehovah-Jesus.
The original function of a race’s religion was to unite & maintain the moronic masses of the race into a collective force governed by the Brahmins or hieratic hierarchy. With the internal or external corruption/elimination of this foundation the race becomes fractured into ‘individuals’ who then adopt various divisive doctrines inimical to racial collectivism & survival: Christianity, Communism, atheism, egalitarianism, materialism etc.–which all debilitate the race.
Thus we learn that only a new religion (The Book of the Law) can cement
the race into a new will to power.
“Love is the law, love under will.” I:57 The Book of the Law
“Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage” (lol)
– Ambrose Bierce
Christians invented marriage by consent. Romantic love replaces buying a wife, capturing a wife, and arranged marriage. A man must treat a woman with the greatest respect, to earn her trust. Jews, including Freud and Makow, cannot understand this.
“YOU think it horrible that lust and rage
Should dance attention upon my old age;
They were not such a plague when I was young;
What else have I to spur me into song?”
W.B. Yeats.
So said the poet who had monkey glands surgically implanted into his scrotum, in an attempt to restore the potency of his manhood.
Some men deal with the waning of sexual virility better than others.
If your intimacy with a woman has only ever been limited to lustful adventuring; of a whip-your-knickers-off, carnal-type of proclivity, then the comfort of a woman’s nestling embrace and affectionate kiss, won’t offer much of a promise.
Neither would the grace that there is, in waking up to the smell of your lover, who is lying beside you and whose scent is a blend of your own.
When a man and woman expect the likeness of each other because their essential being is commingled, then the waning of connubial vigour is not so problematic at all. There is a recognition, whether spoken of, or tacitly accorded, that libidinal disaffection or mechanical dysfunction, is a sufferance, which men and women alike, must contend with as they grow older.
The loss of virility in a man just happens to be more conspicuous a loss, than it is in a woman.
When a once mighty, ninety-degree perpendicularity barely struggles through twenty degrees of arc, lately, and its former measure of poundage is reduced by a half weight, then it is perhaps time to accede magnanimously to the epochal spirit and learn to enjoy the wearing of night gowns and slippers while the sun’s out; to learn to appreciate the meaning implicit in gripping each other’s hands really tightly, in front of a particularly murderous episode of the Walking Dead, whilst emptying a full tray of boxed chocolates and supping at over-sized mugs of Horlicks.
In relationships where one partner is considerably older than the other and there is a generational disparity; in both educational acumen and life-experience, then one or the other of the man or woman is likelier to sense inadequacy the more accutely.
It’s the difference between loving a woman, for whom she is and sleeping with a woman because she’s irresistably horny. Longevity and longevity, in this sense, are not to be taken as synonymous.
Think of all those hymns intoned towards the most high long before sappy pop love songs. Think of all of Bach’s sacred sonic geometry.
And now what?
Joke: weatherman said: there’ll be girls out in skimpy clothes today–it’s gonna reach 90 degrees, which is not bad for a man of my age!
Andy !
Common sense wisdom,
I enjoyed reading that. 🙂
The west’s concept of “Love” is retarded.
If you equate Satan as the imaginary friend or evil half of the western god (Demiurge) or the pre-Hindu false creator god who is inside the Illusion but cognizant of this fact, then sure, the western “love” fantasy and fixation (simply desire of mind and body – combined with mother-need : pure body identification) comes from Satan.
Thing that makes me snicker is if you tell one of these dweeb “satanists” that they therefore believe in the bible as truth…. they get angry.
Glenn !
Thank you.
Whilst there have been some very moving songs over the years that have truly touched me and brought to tears, none has moved me then the following song.
Some say love, it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love, it is a hunger
An endless aching need
I say love, it is a flower
And you, its only seed
It’s the heart, afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It’s the dream, afraid of waking
That never takes the chance
It’s the one who won’t be taken
Who cannot seem to give
And the soul, afraid of dying
That never learns to live
When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun’s love
In the spring becomes the rose
Love is Wise,
Hate is foolish.
When I am Christian, which is a few days every couple of years (in this phase I am not-anti-Christian), I do hear all love songs and some others, like Line Man for the County, with a lot of meaning. As two humans it leaves me unmoved.