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I love you

Believing in god and having an eternal soul are two different things.
Being religious has nothing to do with being spiritual.
Anyhow, love isnt  the key to happy/ healthy life... Ethics are!!
Any man with ethics is by far more human than any religious figure (none that anyone could be proud of).
On the other hand, love is relative. You cant love everyone can you...?!
We are human afterall; it's in our nature to hate, fear and abuse. Because we are indeed social animals.
So if you're ethical thumbs up for you have everything.

Best of luck with the romance !!

Its not about GOD anymore, or even if you're religious or spiritual.
Love is only a word in an English dictionary. It is something us humans created to refer to feelings that are far beyond our rational mind. How can someone love to a point that he might kill the person he loves? twisted right?!! Having friends and socializing with peers is a basic need for every man that started long ago, but loving your friends comes from the benefit that you're getting from them, or at least that's how it starts but vanishes through time and becomes as a habit, but it's still in your unconscious.
Even ethics is not reliable.
Ethics is something subjective. Rules and norms set by masters to control their slaves. Being social animals by nature, who said that killing a man to steel his fortunes is not ethical? Or is it? Who defines ethics?
This is why we go back to religion. In my opinion, religious or not, we are all bound by the rules of our religion, no matter if we do believe in GOD or not. Getting to a point where you are self-satisfied and being able to stand on your own no matter who your friends are and no matter how ethical or not you are is the ultimate purpose in life since we tend to change our friends as often as our ethics.

I see you played your game of connotation and denotation. You missed to explain how do people reach self satisfaction if not by ethics or love...?
However, ethics my friend are definitely not rules and norms.
Ethics are about morality; that little spark in your brain that trigger you not to kill and such. Rules and norms are the bible pages you read ordering you not to kill "The allmighty 10 commandments"; rules and norms are cultural, religious, and influenced by the psycho-social model.

Ethics are the product of our amygdala; purely biological, hence not affected by any outside stimulus. For a man killing his fellow man, it has been proven that serial killers and such have a different brain structure than ours which allows them to commit such actions. As for us, our amygdala inhibates us from murdering our coworkers.
What im curious about is why did you feel the need to write "god" each time in capital letters..??? Is is the propaganda, brainwashing,,?? Or was it self satisfactory??

The reason why some find themselves religious is the same reason why others turn to substance abuse.
Psychoactive drugs, religion and alcohol are the trinity that sparks up the same area in our brain... suspitious much??? We turn to drugs and religion for escape.

Why do I need a biblical commandment to tell me that killing is wrong? Christians, especially, seem to think that it is their great adherence to their religion that makes them better than everyone else. I see it as only hypocrisy. I know a lady who talks about religion and god all the time, goes to church regularly, and lies as often as she buys designer clothes and talks about people behind her back. She is the most selfish and self-centred person I know, and yet she is so proud of her christianity and righteousness.
And whenever she does something that she realizes is "sinful", then she goes and gets absolved from that sin by a priest. How very convenient!
An atheist has more incentive to be good, because there is no one to forgive him his sins! An atheist must live with the regret and guilt of whatever he does without absolution from any god, and because of this, there is actually a consequence to the actions of an atheist!
I do not kill people, because as a child I killed ants and felt bad about it. I learned at an early age that killing is bad. Without god. Without religion. Without the bible.
A moral compass can be learned and can be taught without having to have religion involved at all.
Great post Eli, but I think the love you have to have foremost is for yourself. This is the only life you have, and you should make the most of it, whatever that means to you.
If I am mean to someone, it makes me feel bad, so I try to be nice to everyone. If someone proselytizes, I often feel the need to preach back to them, or point out the flaws in their argument, because letting certain comments sit out there in the world uncontested just offends me.
And I suppose my main point is, you can have as many religious rules as you like, but if you can get forgiveness for breaking those rules as often as you need to, then there is no incentive to make the effort to actually really follow those rules consistently, and you keep failing.
An atheist takes responsibility for his actions, for his crimes as well as his accomplishments. If someone wins an Oscar, and says they wouldn't have been able to do it without god, I lose all respect for them. If god is the reason you got the Oscar, then give the statue to a church. And the religious defense of a crime is, "oh, the devil made me do it"? Well, it's not your fault if the "devil made you do it"... I'll just forgive you! NOT.