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09/11/2008 00:29. An undergraduate theology professor once advised me to avoid expressing love for inanimate objects.

His argument was that non-living things, including those with motors and engines, lack souls. Things without souls are incapable of loving or being loved, he said.

I finished his course with a B-, mostly because I consumed inordinate amounts of time in papers and classroom discussions trying to prove him wrong. With your forbearance, I wish to continue the argument.

Consider the turbo-diesel-powered, 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI sedan. Yes, it’s an inanimate object, normally incapable of movement or direction without human input, worthless without fuel or battery. Yet, I submit to you that it is quite capable of engendering human affection akin to love.

I further submit that,... // Charleston Post Courier