Politeness is a much-overlooked virtue. It's seen as hypocrisy. But we need to get to a stage when you're for conviction X and someone says, "Well you know, I did act on conviction Y (possibly the opposite of X)," you politely ignore it. You move on. Because you've agreed on 90 percent of things, because you have a shared view on so many things, and you politely differ. And I think that's what the religious wars of late have ignored. They've ignored the possibility of harmonious disagreement.
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