The Opposite of Love is .....
September 28, 2025 The parable of the rich man and Lazarus is a troubling one . Did he do anything to harm the poor man lying at his gate ? Did he earn his money in an unjust manner ? What was the wrong that he did ? Then why did he end up in Hell? As I read this parable, it became clear to me that in this parable, based on the information given, the rich man did no action that could be considered wrong or evil . So then why was he condemned? The only thing that the parable says about him is that he ignored the poor man who lay at his gate. And then I remembered that Elie Wiesel had once remarked, that “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” When I put those thoughts together with a recent study from the UC Berkeley’s...
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