Dear Abdulkareem,

The saying of loving our brother as ourselves or more than ourselves is a powerful means of reversing all forms of rivalries, conflicts, and litigation. It is a saying that places a requirement on all persons to show tender affection, care and consideration for all persons no matter the variance in their physical makeup, ethnic association or religious affiliation.

Personally, I think if all humans in all nations walk the talk of loving ourselves as our brothers (all people of the world because we were all descendants from one man-Adam), the world will be free from the plunder of wars that subject humanity to pain, death, and all the other agonizing situations. It would culminate into achieving the GLOBAL PEACE the world is earnestly seeking. I love you my brothers and sisters on Researchgate, and I love you my brother Abdulkareem for bringing this important subject to the notice of the global community.

Thanks

Dickson Adom

It is great concept. Should be used across country borders to eradicate and spread the message of Love.

This citation is incorrect. The New Testament (Mark 12:31) states that one should love one's neighbour as oneself. This in turn is an allusion to/adaptation of Leviticus 19.18, which enjoins Jews to love 'the sons of your people' as yourself. The Greek word used in Mark is ho pleesios, which is a completely non-specific term meaning 'Person of your neighbourhood', but pobably meant for Mark something very similar to the Levitican notion of loving one's fellow-Jews, since Mark Shows no signs of a Pauline interest in spreading Knowledge of Christ beyond Judaism. The Phrase can be understood as a naive Version of the Kantian 'categorial imperative', and like it, implies no precise Content and totally ignores the question of conflicting interests (for example doctrinal but also real-world) and how to manage them. Over the Long term, one can safely say that the injunction has been very largely ignored in practice by institutional Christianity ever since the conflict-ridden institutionalisation of the 'Great Church' in the third century CE.

The rhetoric is great until you get to the ignored fact that many people are misanthropic and apply that hatred of Man (member of huManity: male, female, or child) to their Self. Selfhatred then becomes the root of many misperceptions.

Loving your neighbor as yourself is found eight times in the Bible. Not once. Not twice. Eight times. Loving your neighbor as yourself is so important to God that He not only repeats Himself, He makes it a command. And not just one in a list of many commands. Jesus coupled the command to love your neighbor as yourself with loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.