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“Los seres humanos temen aquello que no comprenden. Lo desconocido nos asusta. Cuando conocemos a personas cuyo aspecto o acciones no nos resultan familiares, sino extrañas, nuestra respuesta inicial es mantenerlas a una cierta distancia. Dependiendo del momento, deshumanizamos o degradamos a las personas que son diferentes para sentirnos mejores, más listos o más competentes. Las raíces de muchos de los peores comportamientos del hombre -racismo, discriminación por edad, misoginia, antisemitismo, por mencionar algunos- existen en esta respuesta básica mediada por el cerebro a una amenaza percibida. Tendemos a tener miedo de lo que no comprendemos, y el miedo fácilmente puede convertirse en odio o en violencia, puesto que puede suprimir las partes racionales de nuestro cerebro.”

“Being a Catholic means being willing to let the world hate you. Being a Catholic means telling people things that they don’t want to hear. Being a Catholic means overturning the tables and saying, “This will not stand!” Don’t believe me? Walk into the nearest church and look at the crucifix.”

“This is a world where human races battle endlessly, where people of one faith still slaughter people of another. Religious wars rage from Sri Lanka to Bosnia, from Jerusalem to American cities and towns where Christians still, in the name of Jesus Christ, bring death in his name to their enemies, to their own, even to little children. Tribe, race, clan, family. Deep within us all are the seeds of hate for what is different. We do not have to be taught these things. We have to be taught not to give in to them! They are in our blood, but on our minds is the charity and the love to overcome them.”