C-flat, your point is well taken. In the early Christian communities, various types of believers sat next to one another in the services. What united them wasn't their beliefs but the language. "Christ hung on the cross and gave his life for the world and then rose from the grave after three days" meant vastly different things to these believers. But each clung to that language and, through it, to one another.

In contrast today, look at Americans--conservatives and liberals utterly loathing one another, ready to tear America apart to have their way. Unable to agree to disagree and unwilling to take the high road. The language now isn't unitive but divisive. We'll never find common ground in beliefs because we are all different. We must find it in the language in which we express those beliefs but we have done too much to destroy that as well.