You read the darnedest things in Facebook status updates. Here’s a gem I stumbled across today.

James W. Rosenzweig:

We pretend too comfortably that the people we disagree with politically are evil, that they have evil intentions, that their motives can arise only from the most bitter and cruel of hearts. The language we use about each other too quickly descends into characterizations that make those we disagree with somehow not American, not civilized, not human. And the result is that we are increasingly militarized in our attitudes about politics.

Thanks to Katherine Grace Bond for posting this.

I can’t help but think about how many popular works of “art” and “entertainment” express the same dismissive, condemning views that prevent dialogue and throw fuel on the fires of cruelty and hatred.