The Agape Order seeks to educate about the historic notion of Agape, the principle of "brotherly love," and organize a critical mass of interest and activity around this idea and its practice. Individuals and institutions of every kind, including those with a religious orientation, are encouraged to join, affiliate, or make use of our resources.

For Christians

Most people are unfamiliar with this principle, except perhaps in its vaguest outlines. The Christian faith, however, is notable in its explicit call for active love of neighbor. Yet Christians, like anyone else, can be swallowed up whole by the demands, distractions, and compulsions of our "modern" money-oriented society, with the corresponding abandonment or evisceration of values this often causes.

Many Christians, therefore, can benefit from a gentle and respectful reminder that Christianity requires them, as a formal mandate and essential obligation of their faith, to follow the second great commandment of Christ:  "Love thy neighbor as thyself."

Accordingly, we encourage Christians to join the Agape Order, or simply seek information, assistance, and support. That's why we exist!

Finally, we note that many religious believers of all faiths, not only Christians, are unfamiliar in varying degrees with the tenets, precepts, and ethico-instructional codes of their faith, and might benefit from a re-examination and re-acquaintance with those principles.

For Jews

Hillel the Elder, the famous Jewish religious leader who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod, and one of the most important figures in Jewish history, recognized as the fundamental principle of the Jewish moral law the Biblical precept of brotherly love. He stated:

"What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow man: this is the whole Law; the rest is the explanation."

(Babylonian Talmud, tractate Shabbat 31a)

Thus, those who follow Judaism might also consider membership or affiliation with the Agape Order, as a reinforcement and assist to their mandated practice of brotherly love.

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The Agape Order is neither a "religious" nor a "secular" organization. It is a brotherhood and sisterhood of persons who can originate in any social quarter--religious, spiritual, or secular--to come together in belief in Agape, the principle of love. The Order has no metaphysics, and so neither espouses nor denies any metaphysical system; it has an ethics, rooted in a wholehearted belief in Agape, the love ethic. Thus, the organization focuses exclusively on the principle of love--in theory, and especially in practice.