The perennial temptation is to scapegoat rather than to carry the dark side of things. Demonizing the other makes us feel superior and “saved.” We compromise the Gospel for the purposes of group solidarity or good management. It is much easier to belong to a group than to belong to God. To belong to a group one usually has to be convinced the group is “right”; to belong to God, one always knows one is as wrong as everybody else. They are two very different journeys.
