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With Valentine’s Day well behind us, let’s turn to another kind of love. The hardest kind. A love of someone who’s not nice to you. Or, in another word, an enemy.
Faiths may say it differently, but the sentiment is similar. For example: love and pray for them (New Testament), be just and fair to them (Torah), treat them as a friend (Quran).
What might this look like today, in the real world?
A Christian minister reaches out in peace to the pastor who fired him after learning he was gay.
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A Muslim imam listens patiently to a caller who rants at him about his religion before sharing his story and inviting him to visit.