Peter KreeftIt is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
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The basic argument for loving some things absolutely is that they are absolutely good. For example, we should love God because he is absolutely good and we should love our parents because they are absolutely good. The reason we love something relatively is that we recognize some kind of goodness within it. We recognize the goodness in people and we recognize the goodness in our country and we recognize the goodness in fish and we recognize the goodness in ice cream and we recognize the goodness in ice cream sundaes and we recognize the goodness of chocolate and we recognize the goodness of chocolate ice cream sundaes.
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