Another strategy of the fallen powers is to form us to see generic groups of people rather than individuals. If the powers can have us relate to (and even hate, mock, or dismiss) categories of people instead of individuals—whom we all must acknowledge possess unique stories, pains, and gifts—it makes it easier to forget the humanity of those different from or disagreeing with us. Depersonalization is an act of desacralization. When we depersonalize, we stop seeing individuals as sacred creations of God. We begin to see them as an “it.” When we are shaped to generalize unique, unrepeatable
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