📕 Loving faith communities become fragmented hostile tribes when the religious double down on divisive ideologies. They try desperately to be right, to the exclusion of inner peace and love for neighbor. When this failure happens, everyone suffers. The Christian faith is not an outside battle with others, it is a long journey inward toward peace and love for others. "Lord, teach me to quiet the battle inside, grant me transcendence over my religious fears and anxieties, make me the instrument of peace you intended for me to be, Amen."