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On Being with Krista Tippett
It was mentioned as a book that described sectarianism as belonging gone bad, starting with a simple difference and ending with demonizing the other.
And they say sectarianism is belonging gone bad. Belonging gone bad.
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It was mentioned as a book that described sectarianism as belonging gone bad, starting with a simple difference and ending with demonizing the other.
And they say sectarianism is belonging gone bad. Belonging gone bad.
The scale for them begins, there's about 14 or 15 points. The first part of the scale is going, you're different, I'm different. And the 15th point is, you are demonic. And that's the word they use. And all the scales down to that.
And the farther down that scale you go, the more violent... The more dangerous. Dangerous it becomes. And the more you justify it. Because if somebody is the devil, well then you get rid of them.
One of the scales in that is, in order for me to be right, it is important that I believe that you are wrong.