He's right. I know what it's like to be on the receiving end of horrible nastiness committed not by a given individual but by community. There is nothing that hurts so much as the message, "You aren't one of us; you don't belong."Generally, the Church only ever sees the good in the idea of community. Yet, in the name of community, all manner of nastiness and bigotry is frequently excused. Precisely because we are so focused on the sins of the first person singular, our radar is insufficiently attuned to those committed in the first person plural. It’s a moral blind spot.
-- Giles Fraser
Of course, this is what we regularly do as a nation. And we call it patriotism.
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