Golden Rule

 

I subscribe to The Cavalier Chronicle, and weekly they have a homily which I like to write out and comment on. The homily is on Page 7, and the one for 10/29/25 is Do Unto Others: “Jesus said loving your neighbor is the second requirement of God’s Law. Yet some people who can keep the First Commandment to love God—have trouble keeping the Second.”

My response: It seems so that some can love God but not their neighbors, but I would argue that one cannot love God unless one loves one’s neighbor, and cannot love the neighbor unless one loves God, and loves God first and foremostly.

I would make this three rules: Love God first, love yourself second, and then love your neighbor third. If one is not an egoist, self-realizing and loving the self, then one cannot properly love God at all let alone first as one is commanded to do. If does not love the self before and more than one loves the neighbor, then one does not as is not able to love God, love the neighbor or love oneself. Self-care comes before other-care, and other-care is only real, lasting and effective if it grows out of self-care,

Christianity does not much allow for egoist ethics, but it is an ethical addition which I wish to introduce to Christianity.

Chronicle: “If you need help with God’s Second Commandment, find help this week in church. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Mark 12: 28-34.”