If it contained god, then you might understand. Love is only the thing that you imitate. God is the love you crave.
There is no dogma just love. Some like to kill all love because they are evil and know no love.
And they are stupid.
Without going into a full theological discourse... If you have read scripture then you know all plants and seeds were given to mankind to name and use.
It is also written God does not abide Drunkenness or Sloth.
Not telling anyone what to do or not do.
Too bad your written god has no trouble abiding the smug, condescending hypocrisy of his coattail-riders.
This “conservative” drops a big clue to how utterly empty their shit is: the whole “written” thing. He even ‘asks’, explicitly, if ‘the rest of us’ “have a book”.
This is important (to them)…because they ONLY believe the stuff they wave around because ‘it’s in the book’. I find it oddly familiar to Eddie Izzard’s routine about flags
They believe the book. Because the book is “the word of god”.
They believe it because they believe the book SAYS IT. NO OTHER REASON.
THE BOOK is the infallible, inerrant, ineffable, magically delicious “Word of Gawd”(tm)…in their minds.
In plain language, they worship THE BOOK…AND THEY DO WHATEVER (they believe) IT SAYS…because they believe the book tells them to. Not “God”, not reason, not love Educational note: the word “bible” means…”book”. If you’ve ever wondered why some ‘Christians’ imply (loudly) that “BIBLE-BELIEVING” ‘Christians’ are more real, more ‘Christian’, more righteous than other ‘Christians’, there ya go.
No different from any form of brainwashing…and akin to a kind of possession… not much different at all from the love-bombing, obedience-enforcement, & isolation/separation practices of cults from the Unification Church to the Hare Krishnas to Jim Jones to NEXIUM - or the Mao-quoting Red Guard / Khmer Rouge.
God save us all from the venal, contemptuous, manipulative NewSpeak “love” of ‘Christians’