At the point at which we dehumanize our enemy, our own humanity is undone. Love your enemy and love yourself, that all can live together.
‘Love your enemy.’
It’s church for kiwis, just because.
At the point at which we dehumanize our enemy, our own humanity is undone. Love your enemy and love yourself, that all can live together.
Ah – I see now!
Yes. Most profound. I wrote notes for an entire book on that one theme.
… to the effect (the dynamic) that when we see the ‘un-human’ in others we are (definitionally) seeing the same in ourselves – they ARE us in other words, species speaking. Hence we have defined ourselves out of the human race this ‘killing’ ourselves.
Yes, as you know, I maintain the boundary between us and others. The two are two different questions: the inhumanity of others and that of ourselves. But if we treat others as less than human, we ourselves are becoming less than human toward them.
**thus