Us and Them

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When I was in college I read this book by a theologian who made a point about bigotry that I never forgot. Most of us have prejudices and believe in stereotypes. We probably can't help it. Its human nature. The problem is when we cross that line and start dividing the world into "us" and "them" that bad things happen. Seeing others as "one of them" opens the door towards the worst forms of man's inhumanity and depravity. Underneath the labels that people tag each others with, whether it be "Muslim", "Hispanic", "Jew", "Fundamentalist", we are all part of the human race. There is no "them". We are all "us".