The term THEAGAPE is a word that landed in the net of my imagination a couple of years ago, after it suddenly leapt out at me while I was contemplating the newly coined word HATEPAGE, wondering what the most effective response might be to this particular species of deadly cyberspace retrovirus.  I had just come back from participating in a Canadian conference organized by B'nai Brith dealing with Hate on the Internet, and had seen a whole gallery of viciously antisemitic, racist, and anti-gay web sites. It seemed inconceivable that half a century after Auschwitz and almost four decades after Martin Luther King's "I have a deam" speech this sort of poisonous nonsense was still being propagated, and still continued to go under the cover of faith and patriotism.  As the letters AAEEHGOT rearranged themselves into various configurations, THEAGAPE with is divinely loving connotations emerged.  What a stunning and ironic coincidence! 

Thus THEAGAPE--from the root THE of the Greek words THEA/THEOS (feminine and masculine forms of god) and AGAPE (unconditional love) came to life in my consciousness as anagram of the English Internet neologism HATEPAGE.  It perfectly symbolizes my conviction that the cosmic core is unconditional love just waiting to be decoded and activated in human hearts and minds. We must learn to heal and prevent the kind of physical and mental/spiritual pain deliberately inflicted by humans on fellow humans. We must stop torturing and murdering the bodies and souls of those whom we fear as "the other." We must discover an antidote and inoculate our children against the kind of fear-borne virulent contagion of the mind and spirit that in the past inspired crusades, witchhunts, and pogroms, and that continues to foment hate crimes of many kinds. "We must love one another or die," wrote the poet William Auden. He is right. We simply cannot afford to lose hope. Genuine transformation is possible if we dare believe that the power of love is stronger than intolerance, prejudice, envy, anger, fear, greed, and hatred. 

This page is intended to provide an opportunity to share stories of people who are actively working in their own small worlds toward freeing the large world from the most destructive plagues of all: the plague of human intolerance of the ways of others and the plague of our murderous hatred of fellow humans.

Father Robert McCahill