Diversity in the culture of belief

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A meditation today lead to a realization that most if not all loud and constant disagreements are really not from different beliefs. The ideas or gods behind them may differ, but as long as they think the opposite polarity of an issue is an enemy that is detrimental to society, what real difference is there? I'm atheist, you're devout. I'm Christian, you're Muslim. I'm protestant, you're catholic. I'm democrat, you're republican. As long as I see you as an enemy to society because you do not believe the way I do, and if you believe the same way, we share a common culture of belief: you are wrong, because I am right, and vice versa. Surely there is a more civilized way to communicate than damning your opponents to hell or your place of torture of choice -