Jesus said the first and great commandment is to love God and the second is to love your neighbor as yourself. So it is incumbent upon each of us to do more to show love to each other.
However we also have to learn that when we are trespassed against we have to basically Get Over It. No one who has ever lived has gone without being laughed at by someone or without being prejudiced against in some way, we all get bullied at sometime. God also said that it was His right to forgive who He will forgive, but we are required to forgive EVERYone.
If you want to go through life being offended by what other people say and do then it is very easy. And in the world today a LOT of people are taking that route. We see it in individuals, groups, countries, socio-economic classes, and even entire religions. But there is a massive amount of scientific, spiritual an anecdotal evidence that if you learn to just let it go then you will be much happier.
I am not perfect at being nice or letting things go, but I try. And more important I truly believe that most people are trying too and if we all will remember this (rather than demonizing these amorphous "others" like the author does) and accept them when they make mistakes in our direction then we will have much happier and more successful lives. And being happy is the reason we are here, for, "Men are that they might have joy".
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