One of the most absurd sayings that’s been circulating now for practically centuries is the idea of how much God loves people or how much Jesus loves the sinner, to be specific.  Have you recently asked a Christian to love a sinner and observed his or her response?  The primary tenet of Christianity the recognition that God is love.  How then can we repeatedly talk about how much God loves? Can God love a little or a lot?  Then there is the lunatic fringe insisting that love for God, already acknowledged as a smokescreen when people do not love their neighbours, is exemplified by unwavering obedience to elementary principles of biological life and by an obsession with holy things.  When all the religious people abandon everything but philanthropy we will be closer to recognizing that God’s love is immeasurable and accessible to few individuals.