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You are a decent and gentle man, and, yes, we are all His children, and very lucky to be here.
I think, however, you make excuses for demagogues. Demogagues are evil, and even though we are all the same in many ways, we can make choices, and they choose to take advantage of their authority and to stir up hatred. You are wrong in your perceptions of Wright and Farrakhan, who are strutting, evil full of themselves narcissists. We all have nuances. Mao, Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot had nuances too. They were HIS children too, and that does not excuse their evil and brutality
The religious left is far more complicit in this polarizatio than the religious right in my mind. I am not a Christian, but it seems to me that many of these so called fundamentalists do much good in their missionary work all over the world and in their other charitable endeavours.
The religious left has become arrogant and rather monolithic from the Reform Jews who can't differentiate 'Tikkim olum" from socialism to the Castro-backing, Isreal scapegoating National Council of churches.
