I recommend an excellent book called God Against The Gods....cannot recall the author's name, but he argues, persuasively, that monotheistic belief systems seem to have this isolationist tendency, a "we're right, you're wrong" mentality, among a significant number of their believers. As a Pagan minister, I've prayed with people of every faith who are open minded enough to know we're all essentially working in the same direction, just along different paths. We could all stand to be a little more tolerant of others. I know I catch myself slipping once in a while into labelling certain groups, usually the ones whose members feel a need to point out to me that I'm doing Satan's work, despite the fact that I don't believe in Satan. I often remind myself to cut them some slack - after all, we're all family.
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