The tired dichotomy of pacifist/patriot is a failure in all categories
Dialogue and its obstacles
Sam Lufi
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and yet I can point to concrete people for whom one or the other is determinative, who will not tolerate the idea that to be patriotic is also reasonably pacifistic and vice versa. Too many religious leaders cling to beliefs, essentially holding too strongly to one over another, as though they are mutually exclusive.