It seems to me that we have a limited and distorted idea of love. Somehow we’ve developed the mind-set that to love one person or group, we have to hate another person or group. So we direct our love toward the groups we’re part of—our families, our denominations, our political parties, our ethnic groups—and feel free to hate anyone outside of these boxes. We may not hate them individually, but we hate them collectively. We condemn people for not belonging to the same groups we belong to—we look down on them for not thinking like us, worshiping like us, voting like us, or looking like us.
