Love is the root of all evil, yes or no?

Answer 1

love is the root of everything in life including evil since a bad person don't harm others unless he loves to do that . and a robber don't steel money unless he loves money.....although this doesn't mean that Love is a bad thing but unfortunately some ppl abuse it which creates evil.

Answer 2

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 3

The root of all evil is greed. Love is positive.

Answer 4

No. Ignorance is the root of all evil.

Answer 5

Woman is the root of all evil. Behind every ruthless and vicious man, is a woman who destroyed his spirit and soul.

Women can be the power behind a greeat man. And also the Root of all Evil.

Answer 6

Some people confuse love with other forms of emotional and inner-expression, such as: power, control, obsession. There is not just one definition of love (as seen in the dictionary); the definition of love is an individual belief. To me - love is a healer, not a destroyer. It is true, there is a fine line between love and hate; however, true love - real love - never crosses that line.

Answer 7

no love is not the root of all evil.

Answer 8

i think evil is a self sustaining process. kind of like life but in a bad way... all negative actions and emotions effecting mankind are evil.

Answer 9

Love is SHOWING, not saying not thinking, but showing that the self is less important than the many.
Evil is SHOWING, not saying, not thinking, but showing that the self is all important.
Love is manifest in selfless action
Evil is manifest in completely selfish action or in total apathy of others.
Don't tell me you love me, show me, maybe then I can learn from you.
So the answer is no.

Answer 10

Not love itself but perhaps the attachment to love.