Deb C, Thank you for the thread and the post. Jeri, yes and well said. I've been known to preach so, well, too bad, I'm going to preach just a little bit more. Christ's parable of the good Samaritan was exactly what you are talking about. The Samatans and the Jews mutually hated each other, collectively. They would go out of their ways to avoid an encounter. "Samaritan" was the "N" word of the day and that is not an exageration. The man who was robbed and injured was Jewish but the Jewish folk who passed him by were so bound up in their self-righteous postures they would not stop to help their brother. The hated Smaritan was the one who did all that was needful. He bound up the injuries and got the man to a place of safety and got medical attention for him and footed the bill and made surety for any other expenses that might come along. Differences they had but common humanity trumped them all for the Good Samaritan. Hmpf! And they say Christ's teachings are no longer relevant. Well, thanks for the listen anyway.