This isolation is both physical and emotional. Direct contact is forbidden. Communication is through viewing an image on a video screen. For the Solarians obscenity is any form of human caring or closeness. For Jesus one of God s most beautiful and holy words is love.
Love is central.
It is the heart of true goodness. It is the one irremovable commandment. It is the essence of God s dealing with humanity. Today, in spite of the wide ranging abuse of the word love, which is often prostituted to describe a wide range of lusts, a little of the old dignity of love still stands. Even among secular pagans, when they want to express a most noble and unselfish human passion, life sacrificing stuff, they still fall back on the word love.