text: To you they are God's conditions. To me, they are descriptive of what a wise person would do if they were in relationship. Obviously (to me, but not to those needing more, I guess), saying that God's love is unconditional does not mean that I don't need to be doing the things that make relationships work. If I do something unloving, and I believe that God is Love (as John says), then it would seem to anyone but those with really bad mental health problems that I would be sorry if I spit in the face of Love. Of course people should have contrition, should work at relationship, should do all kinds of things--all of that still does not mean that God is limited by the cautions of the Catholic Church on how a person in relationship with God would act. Somehow you take that to mean that I'm going to have sex with barn animals, as one old priest said in a sermon to a shocked group, but I think many people are able to separate the ideas of what people should do with who God is. You just don't.