There are some salient points here, but the sense of entitlement runs both ways.
When people go around proclaiming to be one thing or another, that is their proclamation
to everyone else as to just what makes them better than everyone else. Whether it's their
religion, their sexuality, the music they like, the sports team(s) they like, brand of automobile,
everything.
It's not enough to just like something, to do something, to own something. People have to be
the living embodiment of it, most often in a two-dimensional caricature of the worst possible
stereotypes for their, well, let's call it what it is, obsession. Everything revolves around exclusion.
So while love may conquer all and is one of many points that religions try to instill in us, that love is,
by necessity, exclusionary. One tribe versus another. One faith versus another. It's a battle of disparate
memes, which have created super-organisms such as nations and religions, fighting over the resource
that is humanity itself.
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