"The advantage God has is that we were created (by Him, in fact!) to be loved and to love. The devil just can't do anything with that but lose."
The Continental Op, "Comment on 'Fighting in Ways Sauron Does not Know, FrancisBerger.Com (Feb. 25, 2024)
"My friends were full of interesting stories about criminals whom they had tamed, subdued and reformed by kindness; among whom, I remember, figured one notorious ruffian, Jacky-Jacky, who had almost homicidal mania. Him they made their gardener; and Mrs. Maconochie spoke of a certain creeping of the flesh when one day she stood alone with Jacky-Jacky by the fruit trees in the compound—he armed with a bill-hook, and she defenseless."
Elizabeth Lynn Linton, The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland, (1885)*
Love is a wonderful thing, and one reason it is wonderful is because it is rare. Under the right circumstances, love also has the transformative powers with which The Continental Op and the friends of Christopher Kirkland credit it, but these circumstances are perhaps rarer than love itself. We have it on the highest scriptural authority that some humans are wolves, indeed such dastardly wolves that they deceive mooncalf Christians with sheep's clothing.
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