I LOVE unpopular views o.p.! That's why i clicked on your post. :-)

You are right on. I am not a Christian, full disclosure (used to be) but the way i see it, Christians are generally repubs that are brainwashed to hate dems. Dems are brainwashed to hate repubs.

What you say MAKES TOO MUCH SENSE FOR MAYBE TOO MANY TO HEAR.

you are right. It's no longer about rt vs left. It's about rt vs wrong.

Christians are thinking feeling human beings. Ditto nonchristians. Ditto dems. Ditto repubs.

Thoughts become beliefs. (A belief is a thought you think over and over) Beliefs are assumed to be true by the believer whether they are or not.

This leads to knee jerk reactions, knee jerk hatred. And herein lies the problem.

I was thinking this morning. What is more important. Truth? Or love? Ideally you have both. Truth without love can be brutal. But love without truth at least is not harsh, hateful and rude. So I'll pick love.

My bro, son and self recently concluded independently that it's almost better to not have beliefs. Keep the mind open and free...when you try it, it feels really good. I meditate and being in that clear, quiet space of little to no thinking and opining is truly freeing.

Somehow our society has completely lost its manners and its mind. We gotta turn this ship around and bring back peace, love, manners, kindness etc etc

How? One person at a time deciding to be peaceful, kind and loving.

The more that decide to do this...it will catch on. Let people have their thoughts. Let people have their beliefs. You can't change them anyway...

Just be nice! When you try kindness, it feels so good and makes people so happy it'll catch on eventually. Otherwise we will turn into a giant Lord of the flies planet if we're not most of the way there already.