And, no, Ted Turner, they are still not the ten voluntary initiatives. If we presume the initiative to ignore them, there will be consequences. It simply doesn't make any sense. Then there is the Gospel Lesson for this Sunday. The problem is more than semantics.
Contemporary literature tends to view love as a kind of sloppy sentimentalism.
Worse than that, forgiveness is often imagined to be nothing more than soft indulgence or moral indifference. Neither could be farther from the truth. He warns us as we approach the edges of cliffs. The strange message of Christ crucified proclaims that God is also there at the bottom to help us. It is in not seeing it at Golgotha that we can fully appreciate God's love for us.