Don't you think saying "god" is love is a hurtful statement?

When two people love each other truly and deeply, the "God is Love" statements are hurtful. Instead of feeling pure love comes from the person, themselves, they feel it is "from God". It is hurtful to think that if they did not believe in love from God, they would love you less. That they attribute some of their love to someone else, that takes away some of the purity and honesty of love.





To say "God is the source of love" is to deny human love, love between people. It makes love cheaper, more arbitrary and less personal and caring. Humans beings themselves are the source of love, and love between people is due to their own feelings, to take away their responsibility for this feeling and say that it depends on God is inhuman. To love someone purely with your heart and emotions is good, but to have to explain it away or want to take less responsibility for feeling and wanting that love is hurtful.

Don't you think saying "god" is love is a hurtful statement?
so they aren't making love, they're making god, right? ;)





it makes sense to me now.. when someone yells "OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD"...
Reply:I don't know kids - if i say to my boy lets go in the bedroom and make God .........yikes!
Reply:To the extent that you take that phrase seriously, I think you're right. I doubt people who don't believe in God take it very seriously.





But by the same token, would saying that love is merely the union of hormones and neuron electrical storms do the same thing? Would it cheapen it?





For me, it doesn't. It doesn't matter WHY you feel something, it's that you DO.
Reply:God is a role model
Reply:I have even been told that "without Jesus in my heart, I can never truly love".





I'm 28, and for all those 28 years no gods have had anything to do with my love for somebody.





Love is too awesome to have some silly fairy tale ruin it anyway...
Reply:If you don't believe that love is from God, it doesn't change what love is. Believing that the Toyota I drive was built in Japan, when in fact it was built here in the US, doesn't change anything about the Toyota, only my perceptions of the Toyota.





God as the source of love doesn't deny human love. It is an explanation of its source. When I give my wife a glass of water, does she believe that I am the source of the water? I'm assuming she doesn't. If she does or doesn't, how does that change the nature of the water or its source?





Love is much more than a feeling, I think you'd agree.
Reply:You're missing the point: how can something that, in all probability, doesn't exist, be anything?
Reply:God gives us emotions. God gave us the gift of love. It is a gift that we recieve willingly. When you love someone it is from your feelings - not God's. God IS love, however, he gives his love away and it becomes your own. You can choose to love or hate etc. Those emotions are yours and yours alone.