To place it in evolutionary terms:  an aberrant meme popped up in a poor Nazarean carpenter's brain in a small territory of the Roman Empire (which was a very adaptive political-economic unit for its time).  This meme was so bad that nearly everyone who was infected by it were either killed in the most horrible manner conceivable or, at the very least, imprisoned, starting with the index case (first victim), who survived only three years once infested.  
    The Golden Rule is the anti-Evolution meme in-so-much-as and only in-so-much-as it is egalitarian and unconditional.  Evolution mandates that we love our children and our mate, at least until we can be assured the children will go on to reproduce and thus perpetuate our genes (after which we would be inclined to either abandon them or work on more children).  So, love in and of itself is not outside the realm of the determined, but nor is it immoral; it is simply amoral.  Lust/libido is probably sufficient to account for love of our mate.  Once it fades, we look elsewhere.

    In contrast, love of all mankind is radically aberrant and should not have survived in any way shape or form.  Once the Church became a political structure, after Constantine made it the State religion in the Fourth Century and started persecuting other faiths, it is easy to argue that "Christianity" was a meme with its advantages.  As Nietzsche pointed out, it gave the weak power over the strong by making them feel guilty about their conquests and the exercise of their power through the meme of sin.  The Church became a serious political power for the next fifteen centuries.  

    This was not so in the early church.  If anything, it was a-political (Jesus had made it clear he was not there to lead a rebellion).  It extended to the wealthy and the poor, freemen and slaves, men and women, the powerful and the weak, Jew and Gentile, all sharing their sustenance as they shared their faith.  This was simply unheard of, and rightfully so:  it contradicted all of man's "natural" tendencies.  In Jesus' Israel, the rich felt good about their wealth (as do many Christians today), since it meant God had blessed them for their righteousness; and for Jew to associate with Gentile was sinful and unclean. The wisdom derived from the mandate of Evolution was turned on its head by Jesus.  This is the reason his message is so compelling.  

    Men can "will" many things.  The will to power (or wealth) can drive them to great accomplishments and tremendous victories.  It can help them overcome severe adversity.  They are our heroes and men of stature.  But, at the heart of it, the motives will still be selfish, the magnamity measured and weighed against gain, the charity contigent on accolades.  Men become chained to their goals, to their ambitions and greed, to their desires.  They act in accord with their nature, a pitiful nature, a nature to which true love and the Good are foreign.  

    The only path to freedom is through love, universal and unconditional, and this love comes only through the grace of God.  To will to love is an action, not an event, and it is perhaps the only possible act which is truly free.  We must throw away all our thoughts and ideologies, our causes and petty offenses; they only weigh us down! God lies in and beyond the "all that is," and we participate in Him and in all mankind (who is also within him) when we will to love.  This is the only possible way to be more than a cog in the grand machine.  
    But, love is maligned by rules, by penance paid and guilty scourgings.  It is made contigent on the Law.  Yet God asks no price be paid.  The sabbath was made for man, and God will not let the Law be a barrier to his love. We also must place no contigencies on our love, else it becomes as meaningless as the determined workings of the machine.

    To will to love we must empathize.  We must put ourselves fully in the other's place and try to see through their eyes.  We must turn the I-Other into I-Thou by fully accepting and respecting all whom we reach out to with love.  Without this, the act is empty, and the Other is simply another object to be reckoned with in the evolutionary game.  

    Most men wander in darkness, far from God though not outside his reach, and are set on their path by forces they don't recognize.  They ignore the abyss while they tread on its very edge.  There is no beauty in this place, only usefulness.  Right and wrong are relative to those in power, and the truth is always changing.  They convince themselves this is the nature of truth and the nature of morality, and claim everything as beauty.  Evolution seeks forever to fill the emptiness of existence in futility.  Only through God, and through his love through us, can the void be filled.  Everything is enlightened.  The creation becomes beautiful in our love for it, and what  is right is shown to be what is consistent with love.  This is true.   

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